Here I review personality research in one non-Western culture, the Philippines. Reports from
diverse cultures remind one that personality findings reflect the cultural setting from which …

After noting the need for indigenous scale construction efforts in the Philippines, the current
article focuses on the development and current status of two multidimensional measures of …

The authors addressed the culture specificity of indigenous personality constructs, the
generalizability of the 5-factor model (FFM), and the incremental validity of indigenous …

Cross-cultural studies of personality have shown cultural similarities and differences in the
manifestation of personality traits. In interpreting cultural differences in personality traits, we …

The authors explored the internal (similarity of meaning), external (peer nominations), and
self-report structure of personality with Filipino college students. Informants' natural …

Abstract The Five-Factor Model is a prominent exemplar of the trait psychology perspective,
one of several theoretical perspectives in the study of personality across cultures. Research …

After a comprehensive and systematic review of psychological studies on Chinese
personality conducted before 1985, KS Yang (1986) characterized Chinese personality …

Research in cultural psychology suggests that person is a social and collective construction
made possible through an individual's participation in the practices and meanings of a given …

Personality traits, studied for decades by Western personality psychologists, have recently
been reconceptualized as endogenous basic tendencies that, within a cultural context, give …

We first present an interpretative framework for describing cross-cultural applications of
personality instruments. A distinction is made between publication identifiers (such as name …