PERSONALITY PROCESSES AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES An Alternative "Description of Personality": The Big-Five Factor Structure

By L. R. Goldberg, S. Hampson, Willem K B Hof-Stee, Oliver P. John, H. Kaiser, K. Lanning, Dean Peabody, Tina K. Rosolack, A. Tellegen

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Controlling User Perceptions of Linguistic Style: Trainable Generation of Personality Traits (2011, methodology): “We modeled stylistic variation in terms of the Big Five personality traits, because these traits are widely accepted as the most important dimensions of behavioral variation within human beings (Norman 1963; Goldberg 1990).”
Towards More Rigorous Personality Trait–Outcome Research (2016, background): “Among the broad personality trait taxonomies, I focus on the Five-Factor Model (FFM; McCrae & John, 1992) or Big Five (Goldberg, 1990) traits: emotional stability or neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience or intellect, agreeableness and conscientiousness.”
Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person (2005, unknown): “However, it should be noted that several other scientifically reliable and valid fivefactor instruments and approaches are available (Digman, 1989; Goldberg, 1990; John & Srivastava, 1999).”
Vulnerability to Violent Video Games: A Review and Integration of Personality Research (2010, unknown): “The dimensions of the FFM have proven robust across cultures (Church & Katigbak, 1989; Kallasmaa, Allik, Realo, & McCrae, 2000), sex (Costa & McCrae, 1992a), age (Markey, Markey, Ericksen, & Tinsley, 2002), methods (McCrae, Costa, & Busch, 1986), and item pools (Costa & McCrae, 1988; Goldberg, 1990)”
Work-related well-being in the South African Police Service (2006, unknown): “…on the existence of five major dimensions of personality, the so-called “big five,” namely neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (Costa & McCrae, 1985; Digman, 1990; Goldberg, 1990; John, 1990; McCrae & Costa, 1989a, 1989b; McCrae & John, 1992).”
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations (2013, background): “Somewhat more recently, political psychologists have embraced the Big Five (or Five Factor Model) that has been at the center of research in trait psychology over the last 30 years (see, e.g., Goldberg, 1990, 1992, 1993; McCrae & Costa, 2003).”
Justice and personality: Using integrative theories to derive moderators of justice effects ☆ (2006, background): “(Costa & McCrae, 1992; Goldberg, 1990). The “Big Five” dimensions of conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion subsume many of the narrow traits shown in Fig. 1. The Big Five may also moderate justice eVects, as research by Skarlicki et al. (1999) showed”
Leadership and Organizational Culture: Linking CEO Characteristics to Cultural Values (2009, methodology): “Goldberg (1990) suggests that nearly all personality characteristics can be categorized”
Core self-evaluations in Japan: relative effects on job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and happiness (2005, background): “…to perform, and to be successful, (3) locus of control—the degree to which individuals believe that they control events in their lives, and (4) neuroticism—the tendency to exhibit poor emotional adjustment and experience negative affects such as fear, hostility, and depression (Goldberg, 1990).”