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- Title
Evidence for the Big Five in analyses of familiar English personality adjectives.
- Authors
Saucier, Gerard; Goldberg, Lewis R.
- Abstract
Studies of the natural language are a prime source of the Big-Five model, yet the factor analysis of a large, representative, and non-clustered set of English-language personality adjectives in a large sample has not yet been published. In order to test the hypothesis that fading the Big Five depends on biasing the variable selection with an investigator’s preferred non-familiar terms, we present the factor analysis of 43.5 familiar adjectives in a combined sample (N = 899) of 507 self- and 392 peer ratings. The five-factor solution reproduced the Big Five with high clarity, demonstrating generally very high correlations with Goldberg’s adjective markers of the Big Five. The Intellect factor had a more moderate correlation, due to its de-emphasis of the creativity components of Factor V, a phenomenon that may occur commonly with the lexical Intellect factor.
- Subjects
ENGLISH adjectives; PERSONALITY; ADJECTIVES (Grammar); LEXICAL grammar; ENGLISH language; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
European Journal of Personality, 1996, Vol 10, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0890-2070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984(199603)10:1<61::AID-PER246>3.0.CO;2-D