The Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Applied Settings

Cheung, Fanny M.; Wu, Fan; To, Clara

doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00045.x

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“…The forms of interaction involve courteous rituals, exchange of resources, reciprocity, maintaining, and utilizing useful ties, and nepotism (Cheung, et al, 1996;sample item: ''When dealing with institutions, things can work out more smoothly through the connections of friends working inside''). Cheung, Fan, and To (2008) found that senior-level executives scored higher on the Renqing scale than junior-level executives, middle-level executives, and the Hong Kong normative samples. They suggested that business practitioners in the Chinese context might need to understand the cultural-specific standards of social exchange in order to succeed.…”

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The CPAI-2 as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Differentiating Among Academic Major Groups

Cheung

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Journal of Career Assessment

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We examined whether the Cross-Cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory-2 (CPAI-2), developed by the combined emic-etic approach, could provide useful information for us to understand the relations between personality and the key academic major groups in the Chinese context. Participants in this study included 989 university students from 9 universities in Hong Kong. Discriminant analysis showed that the personality traits measured by the CPAI-2 could significantly differentiate among six academic major groups, confirming the utility of personality variables as predictors of career-relevant choice in non-Western cultures. Among the 28 CPAI-2 personality scales, 7 significantly differentiated the 6 major groups in our multivariate analysis of variance. Two of these scales reflect universal intellectual styles while the other five were relational in natural. Among these five relationship-oriented scales, Extraversion versus Introversion and Leadership correspond to similar etic constructs in Western measures while the other three (i.e., Renqing, Social Sensitivity, and Face) are emic constructs. The information provided by these emic constructs can assist career counselors to be more sensitive to the cultural context of career choice of Chinese young people. Keywords CPAI-2, combined emic-etic approach, academic majorThis study examined the utility of using personality variables as predictors of career-relevant choice in a non-Western culture. We also investigated whether the emic constructs measured by the CrossCultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory-2 (CPAI-2) could provide useful information for us to understand the relations between personality variables and the key academic major groups

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The CPAI-2 as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Differentiating Among Academic Major Groups

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Journal of Career Assessment

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“…A series of empirical studies using the CPAI and CPAI‐2 demonstrated the reliability and validity of family orientation and supported its significant explanatory power against career‐related outcome behaviors in the Chinese context beyond that of etic personality dimensions (Cheung, Fan, & To, ; Cheung, Fan, & Yao, ). For instance, Cheung et al () found that MBA students with experience in senior management positions had higher mean scores on the Family Orientation scale than students in junior positions.…”

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Contributions of Family Factors to Career Readiness: A Cross‐Cultural Comparison

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The authors examined the contributions of perceived family intrusiveness to career decision‐making difficulties (CDMD) and the mediating effect of family orientation as a personality trait in different cultural settings. In Study 1, a web‐based survey of 1,563 Hong Kong college students showed that perceived family intrusiveness significantly contributed to CDMD. This relationship was mediated by the relational personality trait emphasizing family orientation. Study 2 compared this pattern of relationship between a Hong Kong sample of 392 college students and a U.S. sample of 367 college students. The mediation model was only supported in the Hong Kong sample. Specifically, although the contributions of family intrusiveness to CDMD were demonstrated across the 2 cultural settings, the significant influences of family orientation were only supported in the Hong Kong sample. Implications for career development and counseling with college students from different cultural backgrounds are discussed.

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“…Despite the widespread use in mainstream psychology, research in various languages has suggested that five dimensions may or may not be sufficient. Alternative models with larger number of factors in addition to the Big Five (Ashton, Lee, & de Vries, 2014; Cheung, Fan, & To, 2008; Cheung, Van de Vijver, & Leong, 2011; Nel et al, 2012; Valchev, Van de Vijver, Nel, Rothmann, & Meiring, 2013), smaller number of conceptually similar factors to the Big Five (De Raad et al, 2010, 2014; Saucier, Thalmayer, & Bel‐Bahar, 2014; Saucier et al, 2014), as well as different factor structures that do not resemble the Big Five (Saucier, Thalmayer, & Bel‐Bahar, 2014; Saucier, Thalmayer, Payne, et al, 2014) have been identified across a number of languages and cultural samples.…”

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Tracing Personality Structure in Narratives: A Computational Bottom–Up Approach to Unpack Writers, Characters, and Personality in Historical Context

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We present a new method for personality assessment at a distance to uncover personality structure in historical texts. We focus on how two 19th century authors understood and described human personality; we apply a new bottom‐up computational approach to extract personality dimensions used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to describe fictional characters in 21 novels. We matched personality descriptions using three person‐description dictionaries marker scales as reference points for interpretation. Factor structures did not show strong convergence with the contemporary Big Five model. Jane Austen described characters in terms of social and emotional richness with greater nuances but using a less extensive vocabulary. Charles Dickens, in contrast, used a rich and diverse personality vocabulary, but those descriptions centred around more restricted dimensions of power and dominance. Although we could identify conceptually similar factors across the two authors, analyses of the overlapping vocabulary between the two authors suggested only moderate convergence. We discuss the utility and potential of automated text analysis and the lexical hypothesis to (i) provide insights into implicit personality models in historical texts and (ii) bridge the divide between idiographic and nomothetic perspectives. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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The Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Applied Settings

Cited by 26 publications

References 24 publications

The CPAI-2 as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Differentiating Among Academic Major Groups

The CPAI-2 as a Culturally Relevant Personality Measure in Differentiating Among Academic Major Groups

Contributions of Family Factors to Career Readiness: A Cross‐Cultural Comparison

Tracing Personality Structure in Narratives: A Computational Bottom–Up Approach to Unpack Writers, Characters, and Personality in Historical Context

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