The hierarchical structure of common Turkish person-descriptive adjectives

Goldberg, Lewis R.; Somer, Oya

doi:10.1002/1099-0984(200011/12)14:6<497::aid-per379>3.3.co;2-i

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“…We should note that additional lexical investigations of person‐descriptive terms have also been carried out in languages such as Filipino or Tagalog (e.g., Church, Katigbak, & Reyes, 1998) and Turkish (Goldberg & Somer, 2000). But because these projects have included non‐personality‐descriptive terms within their variable sets, such as purely evaluative terms of insult or praise and/or terms describing physical appearance, their results are less directly comparable to those of the other projects described here.…”

Section: Results Of Lexical Studies Across Languages: Emergence Of Thmentioning

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Honesty‐Humility, the Big Five, and the Five‐Factor Model

Ashton

Lee

2005

Journal of Personality

365

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This study investigated the relations of the proposed sixth factor of personality, Honesty-Humility, with the dimensions of the classic English lexical Big Five and the closely related Five-Factor Model (FFM). Results showed that although Honesty-Humility was largely unrelated to markers of the Big Five factors, it was substantially correlated with the FFM Agreeableness domain. This relation was largely due to the Straightforwardness and Modesty facets of FFM Agreeableness, which were only weakly correlated with the Big Five version of Agreeableness. A realignment of FFM facets to produce separate Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness factors provided better prediction of personality variables that involve deceit without hostility, such as Social Adroitness and Self-Monitoring. Results indicate the importance of assessing Honesty-Humility as a separate factor.

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Section: Results Of Lexical Studies Across Languages: Emergence Of Thmentioning

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Honesty‐Humility, the Big Five, and the Five‐Factor Model

Ashton

Lee

2005

Journal of Personality

365

241

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“…Two‐factor solutions from several lexical studies also suggest a consistent pattern: One factor includes attributes associated with positively valued dynamic qualities and individual ascendancy, whereas the other factor includes attributes associated with social self‐regulation, socialization, solidarity, and community cohesion (De Raad & Barelds, 2008; Di Blas & Forzi, 1999; Goldberg & Somer, 2000; Hřebíčková, Ostendorf, Osecká, & Čermák, 1999; Saucier, 1997, 2003). Such a factor structure resembles that embodied in the theoretical model of Bakan (1966), who labeled the two factors Agency and Communion.…”

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“…Several lexical studies have reported evidence about factor solutions containing only one factor (Boies et al., 2001; De Raad & Barelds, 2008; Di Blas & Forzi, 1999; Goldberg & Somer, 2000; Saucier, 1997, 2003). The findings from these studies have been quite consistent, and would likely be confirmed by data from all studies upon examination.…”

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“…Several lexical studies have included a relatively broad selection of variables, each including many terms that could be classified as referring to emotions and moods (e.g., Sad, Angry) or as being unusually highly evaluative (e.g., Impressive, Disgusting), and two of these studies (Goldberg & Somer, 2000; Saucier, 1997) included terms referring to physical appearance. Because none of these analyses has found the Big Five in a five‐factor solution when the highly evaluative terms were included, it seems clear that the appearance of the Big Five as the first five factors is contingent upon one's variable‐selection procedure.…”

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What Are the Most Important Dimensions of Personality?Evidence from Studies of Descriptors in Diverse Languages

Saucier¹

2009

Social & Personality Psych

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Progress is reviewed with respect on how attributes of personality and character can best be organized and structured. Key insights on this important scientific issue have been gained by a lexical approach, which posits that the degree of representation of an attribute in language corresponds substantially with the general importance of the attribute in real‐world transactions. The rationale for studying the language of personality is explained, followed by a review of the most salient findings from lexical studies of person‐descriptors in 16 languages. In these studies, one‐ and two‐factor structures are found to be not only the most parsimonious but also the most easily replicated across variable selection procedures, and across languages and cultures. Structures with more factors are likely to show a comparative predictive advantage, but replicate more unevenly. Lexical studies appear to support a six‐factor model at least as well as the Big Five. Future research attention should be directed toward inclusion of a wider range of individual differences, integration with models of temperament, and the search for causal factors and underlying mechanisms that are associated with the best‐replicated personality dimensions.

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“…The Turkish language, a member of the Altaic group, was studied by Somer and Goldberg (1999;Goldberg & Somer, 2000). Five native speakers culled 2,200 person-descriptive adjectives from three modern abridged Turkish dictionaries.…”

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Lexical Studies of Indigenous Personality Factors: Premises, Products, and Prospects

Saucier¹,

Goldberg

2001

Journal of Personality

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The rationale for lexical studies rests on the assumption that the most meaningful personality attributes tend to become encoded in language as single-word descriptors. We articulate some key premises of the lexical approach and then review a number of studies that have been conducted examining the factor structure of personality descriptors extracted from dictionaries. We compare lexical studies in English and 12 other languages, with attention to delineating consistencies between the structures found in diverse languages. Our review suggests that the Anglo-Germanic Big Five is reproduced better in some languages than in others. We propose some organizing rules for lexical factor structures that may be more generalizable than the contemporary Big-Five model. And, we propose several candidate structural models that should be compared with the Big Five in future studies, including structures with one, two, and three very broad factors, an alternative five-factor structure identified in Italian and Hungarian studies, and a seven-factor structure represented in Hebrew and Philippine studies. We recommend that in future studies more attention be paid to middle-level personality constructs and to examining the effects of methodological variations on the resulting factor structures.

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The hierarchical structure of common Turkish person-descriptive adjectives

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

Honesty‐Humility, the Big Five, and the Five‐Factor Model

Honesty‐Humility, the Big Five, and the Five‐Factor Model

What Are the Most Important Dimensions of Personality?Evidence from Studies of Descriptors in Diverse Languages

Lexical Studies of Indigenous Personality Factors: Premises, Products, and Prospects

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