International Journal of Personality Psychology (Feb 2019)

Assessing personality across 13 countries using the California Adult Q-set

  • Gwendolyn Gardiner,
  • Esther Guillaume,
  • Nick Stauner,
  • Jaechang Bae,
  • Gyuseong Han,
  • Jungsoon Moon,
  • Igor Bronin,
  • Christina Ivanova,
  • Joey T. Cheng,
  • François De Kock,
  • Sylvie Graf,
  • Martina Hřebíčková,
  • Peter Halama,
  • Ryan Hong,
  • Paweł Izdebski,
  • Clara Kulich,
  • Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi,
  • Lars Penke,
  • Piotr Szarota,
  • Jessica Tracy,
  • Yu Yang,
  • David Funder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21827/ijpp.5.35039
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The current project measures personality across cultures, for the first time using a forced-choice (or idiographic) assessment instrument - the California Adult Q-set (CAQ). Correlations among the average personality profiles across 13 countries (total N = 2,370) ranged from r = .69 to r = .98. The most similar averaged personality profiles were between USA/Canada; the least similar were South Korea/Russia/Poland and China/Russia. The Czech Republic had the most homogeneous personality descriptions and South Korea had the least. In further analyses, country differences in CAQ-derived Big Five scores were compared to results obtained from previous research using nomothetic Likert scales (i.e., the NEO; the BFI). The Big Five templates produced generally similar findings to previous research comparing the Big Five across countries using Likert-type methods.

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