Gender Differences in Personality across the Ten Aspects of the Big Five

By Y. Weisberg, Colin G. DeYoung, Jacob B Hirsh. Front. Psychology, 2011

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This paper investigates gender differences in personality traits, both at the level of the Big Five and at the sublevel of two aspects within each Big Five domain. Replicating previous findings, women reported higher Big Five Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism scores than men. However, more extensive gender differences were found at the level of the aspects, with significant gender differences appearing in both aspects of every Big Five trait. For Extraversion, Openness, and Conscientiousness, the gender differences were found to diverge at the aspect level, rendering them either small or undetectable at the Big Five level. These findings clarify the nature of gender differences in personality and highlight the utility of measuring personality at the aspect level.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs (2017, background): “Moreover, although gender differences tend to be small for extraversion scores in general, women usually score higher on affiliative facets and men score higher on agentic facets (Feingold, 1994; Helgeson and Fritz, 1999; Costa, Terracciano, and McCrae, 2001; Weisberg, DeYoung, and Hirsh, 2011).”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “For instance, in one of the earliest and largest studies of sex differences in personality across cultures, Costa, Terracciano, and McCrae (2001) found in most countries women were higher on the extraversion facet of warmth, agreeableness, neuroticism, and the openness facet of feelings, whereas men”
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