Are indigenous personality dimensions culture specific? Philippine inventories and the five-factor model

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College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The authors addressed the culture specificity of indigenous personality constructs, the generalizability of the 5-factor model (FFM), and the incremental validity of indigenous measures in a collectivistic culture. Filipino college students (N   508) completed 3 indigenous inventories and the Filipino version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO–PI–R). On the basis of the factor and regression analyses, they concluded that (a) most Philippine dimensions are well encompassed by the FFM and thus may not be very culture specific; (b) a few indigenous constructs are less well accounted for by the FFM; these constructs are not unknown in Western cultures, but they may be particularly salient or composed somewhat differently in the Philippines; (c) the structure of the NEO–PI–R FFM replicates well in the Philippines; and (d) Philippine inventories add modest incremental validity beyond the FFM in predicting selected culture-relevant criteria.

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Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Personality and culture; Personality and culture—Philippines

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