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Relating the Five-Factor Model of Personality to a Circumplex Model of Affect

A Five-Language Study

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures

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This chapter examines the relation between the Five-Factor Model of personality and momentary affect in five languages, based on a pooled sample of 2070 (Ns = 535 for English, 233 for Spanish, 487 for Chinese, 450 for Japanese, 365 for Korean). Affect is described with a two-dimensional space that integrates major dimensional models in English and that replicates well in all five languages. Personality is systematically linked to affect similarly (although not identically) across languages, but not in a way consistent with the claim that Positive Activation and Negative Activation are more basic; indeed, Pleasant vs. Unpleasant and Activated vs. Deactivated came closer to the personality dimensions.

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  1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

    Michelle S. M. Yik

  2. Boston College, USA

    James A. Russell

  3. Pusan National University, Korea

    Chang-Kyu Ahn

  4. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

    Jose Miguel Fernández Dols

  5. Doshisha University, Japan

    Naoto Suzuki

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Yik, M.S.M., Russell, J.A., Ahn, CK., Fernández Dols, J.M., Suzuki, N. (2002). Relating the Five-Factor Model of Personality to a Circumplex Model of Affect. In: McCrae, R.R., Allik, J. (eds) The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0763-5_5

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