PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lewis Goldberg, Trait Theory, Factor Analysis
24 Apr 2020
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Chapter 8: trait theory: the five-factor model and contemporary development. Analysis of trait terms in natural language and in questionnaire. Instead of creating a scientific language, five factor theorists put faith in the natural language, that is, the regular, everyday language people use to describe personality. Specifically, they place their faith in one aspect of the natural language: individual words (primarily adjectives) that describe persons. The basic research procedure is to have individuals rate themselves or others on a wide variety of traits carefully sampled from the dictionary. All five factors were shown to possess considerable reliability and validity and to remain relatively stable throughout adulthood. Lewis goldberg reviewed the existing research and, impressed with the consistency of its results, suggested that any model for structuring individual differences will have to encompass at some level something like these big five" dimensions .
