In praise of an inquisitive mind: a Festschrift in honor of Jüri Allik on the occasion of his 70th birthday

0523496 - PSÚ 2020 RIV EE eng M - Monography Chapter
Gardiner, G. - Sauerberger, K. - Funder, D. - Hřebíčková, Martina - Graf, Sylvie
Towards meaningful comparisons of personality in large-scale cross-cultural studies.
In praise of an inquisitive mind: a Festschrift in honor of Jüri Allik on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Estonia: University of Tartu Press, 2019 - (Realo, A.), s. 123-139. ISBN 978-9949-779-97-0
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-14387S
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : Big Five * cross-cultural comparison * personality traits * BFI-2 * International Situations Project
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)

One of Jüri Allik’s major, pioneering contributions to psychology is the assessment of personality across numerous cultures. His contributions have inspired many other large collaborations of international researchers to move beyond early work confirming the Five Factor Model cross-culturally to assessing the reliability and validity of a broad range of personality traits. Cross-cultural comparisons of personality traits may be problematic if mea sures have unique meanings in diff erent cultural contexts that infl uence how individuals respond to items. In this chapter we present a new and relatively simple method for assessing the comparability of measures in large-scale cross-cultural studies, and illustrate the method using responses to the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) from 15,368 participants in 63 countries participating in the International Situations Project.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0307859