The structure of the lexical personality descriptors in Serbian language

Abstract

Two studies, both originating from a larger psycholexical study in Serbian language, are presented here. Two questionnaires, Lexi and PL have been constructed in the psycholexical study. The questionnaires differ by the formulation of their respective items: while the items of the Lexi contain adjectives, the items of the PL are in the form of statements. The first study presented in this paper examines the latent structure of the Lexi questionnaire, while the second one deals with the latent structure of the PL. In both studies, principal component analysis was applied, and the number of components to be retained in the analysis was determined according to the Scree criterion. Also, Promax rotation was applied in both studies. Seven components which were extracted in the first study have been interpreted as Negative Valence, Negative Emotionality, Aggressiveness, Conscientiousness, Positive Emotionality, Positive Valence and Openness to Experience. The content of these dimensions is obviously similar to the dimensions of Tellegen and Waller’s Big Seven model. In the second study, five components were extracted, and interpreted as Sociability, Anxiety, Aggressiveness, Activity and Impulsivity. The content of the dimensions extracted in the second study corresponds with the dimensions of Marvin Zuckerman’s Alternative Five - Factor Model

Arab‐Levantine personality structure: A psycholexical study of modern standard Arabic in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank

“…We compared the number of culled terms with other psycholexical studies. The number of terms culled has typically ranged from 326 in Hebrew (Almagor, Tellegen, & Waller, ) to 2,027 in Polish (Szarota, Ashton, & Lee, 2007), whereas terms retained for participant ratings have ranged from 264 in Serbian (Smederevac, Mitrovic, & Colovic, ) to 314 in Italian (Di Blas & Forzi, ) and to 413 in Chinese (Zhou et al, ). While some may view our culled list of 204 as smaller than other similar studies, we argue that this may be due to idiosyncrasies of the Arabic language and its corresponding dictionaries (Daouk‐Öyry et al, ), which led to the removal of redundant and unfamiliar words (retaining a much larger number of words would have implied that unfamiliar words would appear in the list).…”

The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits

“…To our surprise, even though previous studies have systematically demonstrated the relationship between Extraversion and the usage of specific words in texts (Gill et al, 2009;Pennebaker & King, 1999), this personality dimension did not show a significant relationship with the choice of topics. This result might be the consequence of the cross-cultural differences in the content of this personality dimension (for example, see Čolović, Mitrović, & Smederevac, 2005;Smederevac et al, 2007) but further studies are needed in order to draw any valid conclusion.…”

“…Items are grouped in seven main scales corresponding to seven personality dimensions: Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Aggressiveness 1 , Openness to experience, Positive valence and Negative valence (Smederevac et al, 2010). VP+2 questionnaire is derived from the LEXI questionnaire (Smederevac, Mitrović, & Čolović, 2007), which was based on the psycho-lexical study and the methodology of Tellegen and Waller and their Seven Factor Model of Personality Description (Waller, 1999). Compared to the five-factor model of personality (for example, see McCrae & John, 1992), the seven-factor model includes two additional evaluative categories named Positive valence and Negative valence (Waller, 1999).…”

Velikih Pet Plus Dva: Validacija Skraćene Verzije

“…Pored pet faktora koji se uobičajeno dobijaju u psiholeksičkim studijama, njihov HEXACO model sadrži i faktor Poštenje. Rezultati dosadašnjih kroskulturalnih istraživanja pokazuju opravdanost petofaktorske (Hendriks et al, 2003), ali i šestofaktorske (Ashton, Lee, de Vries, Perugini, Gnisci, & Sergi, 2006) i sedmofaktorske (Almagor, Tellegen, & Waller, 1995;Benet & Waller, 1995;Smederevac, Mitrović i Čolović, 2007) strukture leksičkih opisa ličnosti.…”

“…Kako bi se proverila stabilnost ovakve strukture leksičkih deskriptora ličnosti, sprovedena je druga psiholeksička studija u sprskom jeziku (Smederevac, Mitrović i Čolović, 2007). Sa svake druge stranice Rečnika srpskog književnog jezika sa jezičkim savetnikom (Moskovljević, 2000) preuzet je prvi termin koji se odnosi na ličnost.…”