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Recurrent Personality Dimensions in Inclusive Lexical Studies: Indications for a Big Six Structure
Author(s) -
Saucier Gerard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00593.x
Subject(s) - psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , adjective , turkish , big five personality traits , linguistics , feature selection , cognitive psychology , personality , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , social psychology , computer science , noun , philosophy
Previous evidence for both the Big Five and the alternative six‐factor model has been drawn from lexical studies with relatively narrow selections of attributes. This study examined factors from previous lexical studies using a wider selection of attributes in 7 languages (Chinese, English, Filipino, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and Turkish) and found 6 recurrent factors, each with common conceptual content across most of the studies. The previous narrow‐selection‐based six‐factor model outperformed the Big Five in capturing the content of the 6 recurrent wideband factors. Adjective markers of the 6 recurrent wideband factors showed substantial incremental prediction of important criterion variables over and above the Big Five. Correspondence between wideband 6 and narrowband 6 factors indicate they are variants of a “Big Six” model that is more general across variable‐selection procedures and may be more general across languages and populations.