Cross-country analysis of alternative five factor personality trait profiles

Zsuzsanna Kövi, Anton Aluja, Joseph Glicksohn, Angel Blanch, Julien Morizot, Wei Wang, Oumar Barry, Michel Hansenne, André Carvalho, Mauricio Valdivia, Olivier Desrichard, Thomas Hyphantis, Jérôme Rossier, Vilfredo De Pascalis, Elizabeth León-Mayer, Aleksei Piskunov, Adam W. Stivers, Fritz Ostendorf, Đorđe Čekrlija, Tarek BellajDorota Markiewicz, Abbas Motevalian, Gokhan Karagonlar

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Abstract

The aim of our study was to examine the typical personality profiles of the Alternative Five Factor Model with its new factor-facet version questionnaire (Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire, 2010) on a large, cross-country database. The total sample of this study included 15,529 participants from 23 sub-samples from 22 countries and with 16 different languages. The sample consisted of university students and staff members. We applied model-based clustering both separately on each sample and on the total sample. Agreement between country-specific and total sample clustering was similar for the three-, four- and five-cluster solutions with Cohen's kappa coefficients ranging from 0.59 to 0.60. The optimal cluster number based on BIC values increased with sample size, but the most common one was five with the following typical profiles: overcontrolled, resilient, undercontrolled, reserved, and ordinary.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7-12
Number of pages6
JournalPersonality and Individual Differences
Volume143
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2019

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant no PSI2008-00924/PSIC ) and was performed within the framework of DURSI Consolidated Group 2009 SGR 809.

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Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónPSI2008-00924/PSIC

    Keywords

    • Alternative five factor model
    • Personality types, cross-country

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