A geometric taxonomy of personality scales
| Autor: | Ross Broughton, Jerry S. Wiggins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050109 social psychology Interpersonal communication Interpersonal circumplex 16. Peace & justice Domain (software engineering) 0504 sociology Taxonomy (general) Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits Psychology Social psychology Adjective Meaning (linguistics) media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Personality. 5:343-365 |
| ISSN: | 1099-0984 0890-2070 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/per.2410050503 |
| Popis: | Previous taxonomies of personality traits have been lexical in nature and have been concerned primarily with the meaning of adjectives in personality description. The taxonomy presented in this article employed personality scales as the units to be classified and was guided by theoretical, rather than lexical, considerations. A priori distinctions among different domains of trait‐descriptive terms identified a distinctive domain of interpersonal traits within which a preliminary conceptually‐based taxonomy was developed. The Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS) were constructed to provide geometrically precise semantic markers of that domain in the form of a circumplex model organized around the orthogonal coordinates of dominance and nurturance. In the course of a decade of research, some 172 personality scales were classified with reference to the IAS by computational procedures described in detail. Advantages and limitations of the current geometric taxonomy of personality scales are discussed, and future research directions are indicated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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