This book describes the origin, history, rationale, procedures, developments, models, and
practical applications of the so-called Big Five factors, providing a concise but thorough …

The purpose of the present study is to find the common kernel of different trait taxonomic
studies and find out how the individual structures relate to this common kernel. Trait terms …

A trait‐taxonomic project was conducted in the North‐East of Italy. Three studies were run. In
the first study, a comprehensive set of terms appropriate for personality description …

A dictionary is the tangible repository of the common stock of words, although dictionaries
comprise at best 10% of the full lexicon. Part of the lexicon is made up of the words used to …

Factor structure and circumplex approaches were integrated to develop a refined structure of
personality attributes in Italian. In Study 1, the factor analytic approach was applied on the …

Two existing selection procedures are distinguished, exemplified in the Dutch and German
trait taxonomies. The characteristic features of the two approaches are identified in two …

Data sets from five original trait taxonomies from different languages, Dutch, Italian,
Hungarian, American English, and German, are used for a cross‐cultural study. Factor …

Similarities and differences in the results of psycholexical research across cultures may be
due to real cross-cultural differences or to specific methodological choices. Two typically …

Abstract Develo** a Big Five adjective taxonomy in Brazilian Portuguese, we explored the
effects of linguistic properties in our classification processes. The first two studies implement …

The aims of the paper are to provide the optimal structure of personality–descriptive terms in
the Serbian language, and to address crucial procedural issues in psycho-lexical studies. In …