THE FIVE FACTORS OF PERSONALITY AND INTERPERSONAL ...

English and a second group of subjects rated the degree to which the 40 most frequently
mentioned descriptors described themselves. Factor analysis revealed that the five
factors were present in the Indian culture The largest factors were agreeableness and
conscientiousness
In the second study, another sample described two incidents involving either
themselves or others that revealed some aspect of personality Again since many of these
subjects were bilingual, responses were in both English and Hindi The responses were
translated into English and classified into categories of personality characteristics by
student raters. Finally, different raters were given the five factor names and directed to
classify the categories of personality characteristics into the five factors where
appropriate. Resuhs indicated that the largest number of incidents were classified under
the factors of conscientiousness and agreeableness All five factors were represented by
the classifications with only a small number of incidents that did not fit into one of the
factors. Narayanan et al, (1995) concluded that the five factor structure was evident in
the Indian culture.
Another type of cross-cultural research has utilized non-English speaking subjects
to determine if the five factors are present in languages other than English De Raad and
Hoskens (1990) obtained a list of over 80,000 nouns from a database of Dutch words
From this list, Dutch-speaking Belgian raters and Dutch raters reduced the list to 755
personality descriptive nouns. Next, 200 Dutch-speaking Belgian subjects and 200 Dutch
subjects rated themselves and their partners on the list of nouns Upon factor analysis.
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