The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits

By D. Schmitt, Jüri Allik, R. McCrae, Verónica Benet‐Martínez. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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A revision of Hofstede’s model of national culture: old evidence and new data from 56 countries (2017, background): “20 n1⁄4 38 n1⁄4 45 (4) Neuroticism (Schmitt et al., 2007) 1.”
Mean Profiles of the NEO Personality Inventory (2017, background): “…number of studies from which only a small fraction can be named here (e.g., Bartram, 2013; Church, 2016; Gelade, 2013; Hofstede & McCrae, 2004; McCrae, Terracciano, & 79 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project, 2005; Meisenberg, 2015; Mõttus et al., 2010; Schmitt et al., 2007).”
Openness to Experience (2014, neutral): “Analyses of the results could then be readily compared across cultures (e.g., Schmitt et al., 2007).”
Differences in Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking Across 63 Countries (2017, methodology): “Following the practice of previous research analyzing large-scale cross-cultural data (Schmitt et al., 2004; Schmitt et al., 2007), we controlled for age and gender by calculating residualized country-level means for empathy.”
Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in eastern and western countries: a meta-analytic review. (2010, background): “(There were some nonuniversal factors as well.) Similarly, there are numerous cross-cultural differences in average Big Five personality traits, some of which suggest that Eastern collectivist cultures might be more susceptible to media violence effects, others of which suggest the opposite ( Schmit”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success (2014, background): “The Job Corps primarily improves earnings in the short run by increasing employment (Schochet et al. (2008)).”
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020, background): “…there is ample evidence that individual differences in personality characteristics can be clustered into replicable groups such as the Big Few (Schmitt et al., 2007), are relatively stable over several years (Terracciano et al., 2006), are persistently correlated with a variety of life…”
Adaptasi Bahasa dan Budaya Inventori Big Five (2012, background): “Serupa dengan aitem O35(R), aitem ini juga mendapat skor korelasi terendah pada saat diterjemahkan oleh Schmitt et al. (2007) yang mengadaptasi BFI ke 56 bahasa menemukan bahwa terjemah ke dalam bahasa Afrika dan Asia Tenggara pada aitem has few artistic interests hanya berkorelasi sebesar 0,19.”
On being yourself in different cultures: ideal and actual self-concept, autonomy support, and well-being in China, Russia, and the United States (2009, result): “Further, while other studies have looked at mean levels of traits across countries (e.g., Schmitt et al., 2007 ), none to date has looked at trait ideals, that is, how the traits are valued in different cultures.”
Measuring Large-Scale Social Networks with High Resolution (2014, background): “As Big Five has been collected for various populations, including representative sample from Germany [169] and students from western Europe [170], we report the results from 2012 deployment in Figure 13 to show that our population is unbiased with respect to those important traits.”