The role of self-reports in culture and personality research: It is too early to give up on self-reports

An attempt to validate national mean scores of Conscientiousness: No necessarily paradoxical findings

“…We also report some the correlations of Conscientiousness scores with GDP, lifeexpectancy and corruption although these relationships have been reported elsewhere (Heine et al, 2008;Oishi & Roth, 2009). The reasons for this are that in the present study we make use of facets scale scores in addition to broad domain scores and we have personality scores for a somewhat bigger sample of culture than has previously been available.…”

“…Heine and colleagues (2008) reanalyzed published data and showed that aggregate national scores of self-reported Conscientiousness were, contrary to the authors' expectations, negatively correlated with various country-level behavioral and demographic indicators of Conscientiousness, such as postal workers' speed, accuracy of clocks in public banks, accumulated economic wealth, and life expectancy at birth. Oishi and Roth (2009) expanded the list of contradictory findings by demonstrating that nations with high self-reported Conscientiousness were not less but more corrupt.…”

“…So far, validity studies have used broad personality traits such as the Big Five domains (Heine et al, 2008;Oishi & Roth, 2009), but these broad traits can be broken down into more specific lower-level facets. A more differentiated description of personality traits is justified by the possibility that external criterion variables may not so much be correlated with the central core of the trait (i.e., the common variance of different lower-level facets of the trait) but, rather, with some more peripheral aspect of it.…”

“…Improving on previous studies (Heine et al, 2008;Oishi & Roth, 2009), we investigate the relationship at the facet scale level of Conscientiousness and employ a sample of different types of external validity criteria.…”

Validity and reliability of subjective wellbeing indicators in sociological research: The measurement of life satisfaction

“…, са индексом људског развоја и свим његовим компонентама (Abdallah et al, 2008), затим, са степеном једнакости и људских права , политичком слободом и владавином права (Veenhoven, 2005), као и то да је негативно повезано са перципираним нивоом корупције (Oishi and Roth, 2009). Просечан расположиви доходак домаћинства је такође повезан са просечним задовољством животом .…”