Gender differences in personality traits across cultures: robust and surprising findings.

By Paul T. Costa, Antonio Terracciano, R. McCrae. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies

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In Clinical Psychology

1. C. Soto
2. R. McCrae
3. Oliver P. John
4. Colin G. DeYoung
5. B. Roberts
6. Jüri Allik
7. Michael Minkov
8. Samuel D. Gosling

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Alexandre J. S. Morin
2. Herbert W. Marsh
3. C. Soto
4. B. Roberts
5. R. McCrae
6. Oliver P. John
7. Benjamin Nagengast
8. Jüri Allik

In Gender Studies

1. A. Eagly
2. Sabine Sczesny
3. Jochen Peter
4. Patti M. Valkenburg
5. Wendy Wood
6. K. V. Petrides
7. R. McCrae
8. Amanda Diekman

Citations in the corpus

• Toward More Readable Big Five Personality Inventories (2006, result): “Thus, except for the C domain, the gender differences in the EPIP-NEO scores generally corresponded to previous findings (Costa et al., 2001) and present results with the NEO-PI-R.”
• A Five-Factor Theory Perspective (2002, background): “That finding, initially counterintuitive, cannot be directly explained by FFT, but it is not necessarily inconsistent with it. Costa et al. (2001) argued that the effect might be accounted for by attribution processes: In traditional cultures, men and women attribute their masculine and feminine t”
• A Social Role Theory Perspective on Gender Gaps in Political Attitudes (2010, background): “27, Costa et al., 2001). In addition, men endorse higher levels of the values of power (d = .32) and achievement (d = .20) (Schwartz & Bardi, 2001). In analyses of self-reported personality traits from the 1970s through the late 1990s, Twenge (1997) found convergence between men and women, which was”
• A new look at the big five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modeling. (2010, background): “NEO-FFI responses consistently have high levels of short-term test–retest stability (.86 –.90; McCrae & Costa, 2004; Robins et al., 2001) and internal consistency (.68 –.86; Costa & McCrae, 1992).”
• Sex, Personality, and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour: Elucidating the Gender Effect (2012, background): “1), as well as higher neuroticism and higher conscientiousness; sex differences in extraversion and openness-to-experience are less pronounced and depend on the facets considered (see Bergeman et al. 1993; Costa et al. 2001; Feingold 1994; Schmitt et al. 2008).”
• Voice, creativity, and big five personality traits: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “Highly neurotic people also tend to experience shame, anger, anxiety, and depression (Costa et al., 2001) and interpret most situations in a negative way (Costa”
• Navigating Social Roles in Pursuit of Important Goals: A Communal Goal Congruity Account of STEM Pursuits (2013, background): “97 (Feingold, 1994), warmth (d = -.23; Costa et al., 2001), and both benevolent (d=.”
• Sex differences in direct aggression: What are the psychological mediators? (2006, background): “Differences have also been found in anxiety both in the United States and cross-culturally (Simon & Nath, 2004; Costa et al., 2003; Feingold, 1994).”