Personality Structure Among Black and White South Africans

Heaven, Patrick C. L.; Pretorius, Anne-Marié

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“…In contrast to Heuchert et al's (2000) findings Heaven and Pretorius (1998) comparing a sample of Sotho and Afrikaans speaking students using John's (1990) natural language descriptors, were unable to recover the five factor structure for the Sotho group. Nonetheless, a clear Neuroticism factor was found for both, the Afrikaans and the Sotho language groups.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Other studies have focused on investigating the universality of the five-factor structure obtaining mixed results. Heaven and Pretorius (1998) found support for the five-factors in an Afrikaans-speaking student sample but failed to confirm the five-factor structure for the Sotho- The first study to comprehensively assess South Africa's cultural diversity was undertaken by Meiring et al (2005). The researchers applied the 15FQ+, an adapted version of the 15FQ designed to measure Cattell's 16 personality factors (Tyler, 2003) to 9 Black language groups and three other race groups, and detected construct bias and poor reliability in various indigenous African groups.…”

Section: Recent Studies Of Personality Assessment In South Africamentioning

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Construction of an Indigenous Emotional Stability Scale

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2012

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Section: Neuroticism Across Language Groupscontrasting

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Construction of an Indigenous Emotional Stability Scale

Chrystal¹

2012

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“…The Millonian approach seems only to be in accordance with a Western worldview. Research has demonstrated that African and Asian perspectives on personality differ vastly from Western perspectives (Church, 2000;Cheung, Cheung, Leung, Ward, & Leong, 2003;Heaven & Pretorius, 1998;McCrae & Terracciano, 2005;Teferi, 2004). Saraswathi (1998) argues that in the West the focus is on an independent, autonomous self characterised by motivation, analytical, abstract thinking, and an internal locus of control.…”

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Personality Reconceptualised: A Millonian Approach?

Laher

2007

South African Journal of Psychology

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The field of personality theory and assessment is often criticised for two reasons. The first is the lack of an integrated theory of personality that considers the intrapsychic, interpersonal, environmental, and biological aspects involved in personality development. The second is the Eurocentric nature of most theories. This article critically explores Mlllon's model of personality as a possible stepping stone towards a more holistic and integrated approach to personality and its assessment. Particular consideration is given to the cross-cultural aspects of personality theory and assessment interna tionally and in the South African context. In this regard, it is demonstrated that while Mlllon's model might provide some potential directions to follow in terms of creating a holistic and cross-culturally applicable model of personality, it is still lacking. The link to evolutionary psychology, and hence to biological aspects of personality, as well as the environmental or cross-cultural aspects of personal ity, needs more development. As with other personality theories, the Millonian approach is largely Eurocentric.

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“…In South Africa four studies have investigated the applicability of the model for South African population groups, but these studies produced conflicting results. Heaven, Connors and Stones (1994) did not find support for a five-factor structure when they applied a measure consisting of a list of trait adjectives proposed by John (1990) to 200 Black South African students, nor did Heaven and Pretorius (1998) succeed in doing so when translations of the adjectives were administered to 247 Black Sotho-speaking students. However, the same procedure for a sample of 155 Afrikaansspeaking students yielded a five-factor structure in support of the Big Five model.…”

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Using the occupational personality questionnaire (OPQ) for measuring broad traits

Visser

Toit

2004

SA j ind psychol

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The widespread acceptance of the Big Five model implies that personality consists of relatively independent dimensions that form a taxonomy whereby individual differences may be explained. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the subscales of an established personality inventory that measures narrow traits of personality, the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ), could be reduced meaningfully to fit a broad factor model within a South African context. The OPQ 5.2 concept model was administered to 453 job applicants in the telecommunications sector. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a six-factor structure that included five factors corresponding to the Big Five model of personality. The sixth factor, labeled Interpersonal Relationship Harmony, resembled the description of the Chinese tradition factor, extracted in a non-Western society.<p> <strong>Opsomming</strong> <br>Die wye aanvaarding van die Groot-Vyfmodel impliseer dat persoonlikheid uit relatief onafhanklike dimensies bestaan wat ’n taksonomie vorm waarmee individuele verskille verklaar kan word. Die doel van die ondersoek was om vas te stel of die subskale van ’n gevestigde persoonlikheidsvraelys wat gedetailleerde persoonlikheidstrekke meet, die Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ), op sinvolle wyse gereduseer kon word tot ’n breë faktormodel in ’n Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Die OPQ 5.2 konsepmodel is toegepas op 453 werkapplikante in die telekommunikasiesektor. ’n Ondersoekende faktorontleding het ’n sesfaktorstruktuur gelewer, insluitende vyf faktore wat met die Groot Vyf persoonlikheidsmodel ooreenstem. Die sesde faktor wat as Interpersoonlike Verhoudingsharmonie benoem is, toon ooreenstemming met die Chinese tradisiefaktor wat in ’n nie-Westerse samelewing onttrek is

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Personality Structure Among Black and White South Africans

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Construction of an Indigenous Emotional Stability Scale

Construction of an Indigenous Emotional Stability Scale

Personality Reconceptualised: A Millonian Approach?

Using the occupational personality questionnaire (OPQ) for measuring broad traits

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