Open AccessBIG-FIVE OR BIG-SIX? A ROMANIAN EXPLORATORY STUDY BASED ON A NONVERBAL MEASURE
Author(s) -
Mihaela Minulescu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psihologia resurselor umane
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2392-8077
pISSN - 1583-7327
DOI - 10.24837/pru.v5i1.311
Subject(s) - psychology , nonverbal communication , personality , big five personality traits , exploratory factor analysis , romanian , big five personality traits and culture , population , exploratory research , normative , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , demography , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , anthropology
The Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire, FF-NPQ (Paunonen, Ashton & Johnston, 2001) is an psychometric, structured, nonverbal measure of personality traits defined within the Big-Five model of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1992). The questionnaire has been experimented on Romanian population and the psychometric properties have been studied on a normative sample of 1800 subjects (Iliescu, Minulescu, Nedelcea, 2005). This study presents the results of an exploratory factorial analysis that was carried out in Romania on the items of the Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Inventory (FFNPQ). The article is focused on the emergence of a 6-factor factorial solution, in some points different from Costa and McCrae's (1992) model, which has been the fundament of FFNPQ construction.