ABSTRACT
In a new area of research in personality, the fundamental tasks are to build a measure of the construct of interest, then to provide a body of research that demonstrates the validity of the construct. Adult personality researchers, faced with a large number of constructs developed through this process, have begun to address questions about the relationship among these constructs. In the process, questions about the fundamental structure of personality have been debated. Interest in the Big Five adult personality model described in this volume and elsewhere (e.g., Digman, 1990; John, 1990) is the most current manifestation of the search for this structure.
