Empirical and theoretical status of the five-factor model of personality traits

By R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Information Systems

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Intrinsic factors affecting impulsive buying behaviour—Evidence from India (2014, background): “As per literature, individuals scoring highly on neuroticism trait are prone to insecurity and emotional distress, while individuals scoring lowly on this personality trait of emotional instability tend to be more relaxed and less prone to distress (McCrae and Costa, 2008).”
Personality Trait Development During the Transition to Parenthood (2016, background): “First, one possible explanation advocated by five-factor theory (McCrae & Costa, 2008) is that parenthood and other life transitions do not influence personality trait change at all.”
Comorbidity: A network perspective (2010, background): “…– and therefore, must be measured indirectly through the presence or absence of certain observable variables (e.g., MDD is measured by depressed mood and extraversion is measured by party-going behavior; McCrae & Costa 2008; see Michell [2005] for a detailed explanation of measurement in science).”
Impulsive buying tendency: Measuring important relationships with a new perspective and an indigenous scale (2016, background): “According to McCrae and Costa (2008), the personality trait emotional instability (which is reversed and referred to as emotional stability) indicates personalities prone to insecurity and emotional distress.”
State of the aRt personality research: A tutorial on network analysis of personality data in R (2015, unknown): “This approach has culminated in currently influential models such as the Five Factor Model of personality (McCrae & Costa, 2008), in which five dominant latent variables are ultimately held responsible for most of the structural covariation between responses to personality items (additional latent…”
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Simpson ' s paradox in psychological science : a practical guide (2017, background): “…such dimensions is taken by some to mean that these dimensions play a causal role within individuals, e.g., “Extraversion causes party-going” (cf. McCrae and Costa, 2008, p. 288) or that psychometric g (hereafter, g: general intelligence) is an adaptation that people use to deal with…”
The Relations of Gender and Personality Traits on Different Creativities: A Dual-Process Theory Account (2012, background): “At the source trait2 level, studies based on the five-factor model (McCrae & Costa, 2008) consistently find positive relationships between Extraversion, Openness to Experience, and creativity (Batey, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Furnham, 2010; Batey & Furnham, 2006; for the meta-analysis of the Big Five…”
Successful Explanations Start with Accurate Descriptions: Questionnaire Items as Personality Markers for More Accurate Predictions (2018, background): “…Five domain, for instance, has been suggested to be made up of six facets (e.g. McCrae & Costa, 2010), although this particular facet model is not necessarily based on empirical work (McCrae & Costa, 2008) and there exist alternative facet models for the Big Five domains (e.g. Soto & John, 2017).”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, unknown): “Organizational research (Dalal, Meyer, Bradshaw, Green, Kelly, & Zhu, 2015; Li, Barrick, Zimmerman, & Chiaburu, 2014a) emphasizes the stability of personality (McCrae & Costa, 2003, 2008) rather than change of personality.”