Standardization of the NEO-PI-3 in the Greek general population

Abstract

BackgroundThe revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-3) includes 240 items corresponding to the Big Five personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience) and subordinate dimensions (facets). It is suitable for use with adolescents and adults (12 years or older). The aim of the current study was to validate the Greek translation of the NEO-PI-3 in the general Greek population.Material and methodsThe study sample included 734 subjects from the general Greek population of whom 59.4% were females and 40.6% males aged 40.80 ± 11.48. The NEO-PI-3 was translated into Greek and back-translated into English, and the accuracy of the translation was confirmed and established. The statistical analysis included descriptive statistics, confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA), the calculation of Cronbach’s alpha, and the calculation of Pearson product–moment correlations. Sociodemographics groups were compared by ANOVA.ResultsMost facets had Cronbach’s alpha above 0.60. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable loading of the facets on their own hypothesized factors and very good estimations of Cronbach’s alphas for the hypothesized factors, so it was partially supportive of the five-factor structure of the NEO-PI-3.The factors extracted with Procrustes rotation analysis can be considered reasonably homologous to the factors of the American normative sample. Correlations between dimensions were as expected and similar to those reported in the literature.DiscussionThe literature suggests that overall, the psychometric properties of NEO-PI-3 scales have been found to generalize across ages, cultures, and methods of measurement. In accord with this, the results of the current study confirm the reliability of the Greek translation and adaptation of the NEO-PI-3. The inventory has comparable psychometric properties in its Greek version in comparison to the original and other national translations, and it is suitable for clinical as well as research use.

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“…Scores for the NEO-PI-3 and ASI-3 are summarized in Table 1. For each of the personality traits, raw scores were similar to those found in previous studies examining non-clinical, community samples (see Fountoulakis et al, 2014;Luminet et al, 1999). Similarly, ASI-3 scores were also consistent with previous investigations of non-clinical samples (see Jardin et al, 2018;Osman et al, 2010), where the sample mean of 17.1 (SD = 13.5) would be considered within the normal range.…”

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“…The protocol included the gathering of sociodemographic data and the application of the TEMPS-A [25, 43–45], the TCI [36, 46–49] and the NEO-PI-3 R [34, 35]. On the basis of this dataset all of them were officially validated in the Greek language [50–52] and their psychometric properties can be found in the related publications. It is also important to note that the collection of the data has been completed by 2008, before the current economic crisis began, and originally was used for the validation of these instruments.…”

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“…We also searched the Web of Science , PsycINF O, Google Scholar , and other databases. New translations of the NEO-PI-R/3 became available for several languages: Basque (Gorostiaga, Balluerka, Alonso-Arbiol, & Haranburu, 2011), Bulgarian (Costa & McCrae, 2007), Greek (Fountoulakis et al, 2014), Icelandic (Jonsson & Bergthorsson, 2004), Latvian (Van Skotere & Perepjolkina, 2011), Lithuanian (Žukauskiene & Barkauskiene, 2006), Romanian (Ispas, Iliescu, Ilie, & Johnson, 2014), and Tigrigna (or Tigrinya; Bahta & Laher, 2013). Although an earlier version of NEO-PI was translated into Finnish (Pulver, Allik, Pulkkinen, & Hämäläinen, 1995), data for Finnish version of the NEO-PI-R were collected for a more recent project (Lönnqvist, Paunonen, Tuulio-Henriksson, Lönnqvist, & Verkasalo, 2007), which mean values were provided by Jan-Erik Lönnqvist.…”