ABSTRACT
Language analyses, for example, in English (cf. Norman, 1963; Peabody & Goldberg, 1989) or in Dutch ( cf. Brokken, 1978) have enabled taxonomers to reveal in adult self-and peer-ratings five personality factors or dimensions. These Big Five factors have been numbered and labeled as (I) Extraversion (or Power, Surgency), (II) Agreeableness (or Love), (III) Conscientiousness (or Work, Dependability), (IV) Emotional Stability (vs. Neuroticism, or Affect), and (V) Intellect (or Openness, Culture). Studies have been executed in a diversity of languages (cf. Brokken, 1978; John, Goldberg, & Angleitner, 1984), with different sets of person descriptive adjectives, nouns, and verbs (De Raad, 1991 ), with different types of judges, and with different factor analytic procedures (Goldberg, 1990). In addition, investigators have searched for the Big Five in clinical person descriptions of children and adults (cf. Digman, 1989; Digman & Inouye, 1986; McCrae, Costa, & Busch, 1986).
