Six Turkish Personality Factors and the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2008
Yazarlar: S. Arzu Wasti, Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton, Oya Somer
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Uluslararası, Wos, 2008, cilt 39, ss 665-684
Özet
This article examines the six largest dimensions of the Turkish personality lexicon, as derived from the personality-descriptive terms of Goldberg and Somer's (2000) data set. The six Turkish lexical factors show close correspondences of content to all six dimensions observed in several other languages. In a new data set, the authors then correlate factor scores representing these indigenous Turkish dimensions with the scales of the HEXACO Personality Inventory, which operationalize the six cross-language factors. Results show a pattern of strong convergent and weak discriminant correlations. Overall, findings suggest that the cross-language six-dimensional structure of personality description does generalize to the Turkish lexicon. The Turkish structure also reveals some interesting emic features, particularly with regard to the content of the Openness to Experience factor.