The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data from Ratings of Young Adolescents

Robert R. Mccrae , Antonio Terracciano , Filip de Fruyt , Marleen De Bolle , Michele J. Gelfand , Paul T. Jr. Costa , Maria E. Aguilar-Vafaie , Chang-Kyu Ahn , Hyun-Nie Ahn , Lidia Alcalay , Jüri Allik , Tatyana V. Avdeyeva , Marek Blatný , Denis Bratko , Marina Brunner-Sciarra , Thomas R. Cain , Niyada Chittcharat , Jarret T. Crawford , Margarida P. De Lima , Ryan Fehr , Emília Ficková , Sami Gülgöz , Martina Hřebíčková , Lee Jussim (1) , Waldemar Klinkosz , Goran Knežević , Nora Leibovich De Figueroa , Corinna E. Löckenhoff , Thomas A. Martin , Iris Marušić , Khairul Anwar Mastor , Katsuharu Nakazato , Florence Nansubuga , Jose Porrata , Danka Purić , Anu Realo , Norma Reátegui , Jean-Pierre Rolland (2) , Vanina Schmidt , Andrzej Sekowski , Jane Shakespeare-Finch , Yoshiko Shimonaka , Franco Simonetti , Jerzy Siuta , Barbara Szmigielska , Vitanya Vanno , Lei Wang (3) , Michelle Yik

1 Department of psychology
2 CeRSM - Centre de Recherche sur le Sport et le Mouvement
3 LRGP - Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés

We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N = 5,109) aged 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence with culture-level scores from previous studies of self-reports and observer ratings of adults, but they were unrelated to national character stereotypes. Trait profiles also showed cross-study agreement within most cultures, eight of which had not previously been studied. Multidimensional scaling showed that Western and non-Western cultures clustered along a dimension related to Extraversion. A culture-level factor analysis replicated earlier findings of a broad Extraversion factor, but generally resembled the factor structure found in individuals. Continued analysis of aggregate personality scores is warranted.

Mots clés: Emotion Cognition et Comportement

Domaines: Sciences cognitives; Psychologie

Robert R. Mccrae, Antonio Terracciano, Filip de Fruyt, Marleen De Bolle, Michele J. Gelfand, et al.. The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data from Ratings of Young Adolescents. Journal of Personality, 2010, 78 (3), pp.815-838. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00634.x⟩. ⟨hal-01469894⟩