Factor analysis of trait terms in everyday Japanese language

Development of an Instrument to Measure Web Site Personality

“…The Big Five is a desirable model for our purposes because it captures most of the significant variation in human personality (Digman 1990;John 1990aJohn , 1990b and is robust across measurement domains (Digman and Takemoto-Chock 1981), different cultures and languages (Isaka 1990;John, Goldberg, and Angleitner 1984) and gender, generation, and occupation (John 1990a). The Big Five model consists of the following five factors: Negative Emotionality, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.…”

Toward a taxonomy of trait adjectives in Filipino: comparing personality lexicons across cultures

“…Lists of trait terms of varying degrees of comprehensiveness have also been compiled for the Chinese (Cheung, Conger, Hau, Lew and Lau, 1992;Yang and Bond, 1990;Yang and Lee, 1971;Yik and Bond, 1993), Japanese (Aoki, 1971;Isaka, 1990), Filipino (Church and Katigbak, 1989), and selected additional Asian and Pacific Island languages (White, 1980;White and Prachuabmoh, 1983). Although replication of the Big-Five-like dimensions (Surgency or Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consicentiousness, Neuroticism, and Intellect or Openness to Experience) in Indo-European languages has been fairly good (Caprara and Perugini, 1994;De Raad, 1992;Ostendorf, 1990;Shmelyov and Pokhil'ko, 1993), results in non-European languages have been less definitive (Bond, 1979;Bond, Nakazato and Shiraishi, 1975;Church and Katigbak, 1989;Cheung et al, 1992;Guthrie and Bennett, 1971;Isaka, 1990;Szirmik and De Raad, 1994;Yang and Bond, 1990;Yik and Bond, 1993). Studies that use representative terms from the indigenous languages, rather than translations of English markers, provide the most persuasive evidence for the universality of trait dimensions.…”

Use of Western and Indigenously Developed Personality Tests in Asia

“…Comprehensive lists of personality terms can be derived in daily language, especially in the use of adjectives describing personality. Lists of trait terms extracted from the local languages have been used to develop indigenous personality measures in Japan (Isaka, 1990) and the Philippines (Church et al, 1997). These measures are used most commonly in theoretical research, and their extracted factors are compared to the five factor model.…”