Only three personality factors are fully replicable across languages: Reply to Ashton and Lee

0349770 - PSÚ 2011 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
De Raad, B. - Barelds, D.P.H. - Mlacić, B. - Church, A.T. - Katigbak, M. S. - Ostendorf, F. - Hřebíčková, Martina - Di Bias, L. - Szirmak, S.
Only three personality factors are fully replicable across languages: Reply to Ashton and Lee.
Journal of Research in Personality. Roč. 44, č. 4 (2010), s. 442-445. ISSN 0092-6566. E-ISSN 1095-7251
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Keywords : lexical approach * factor replicability * cross-cultural * three factors
Subject RIV: AN - Psychology
Impact factor: 1.756, year: 2010

We reply to Ashton and Lee's (2010) comments on our paper on the cross-cultural replicability of trait factors (De Raad et al., 2010). More specifically, we comment on the interpretation of congruence coefficients, the distinction between Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility in three languages, and the inclusion of a lexical study that has a different six-factor structure. In our view, none of the arguments given in Ashton and Lee's paper compels a change in our conclusion, based on the extensive findings of our paper, that only three factors are fully replicable across languages.
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