Factor Analysis of Personality Data

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Introduction
The research critically examines the Inuit children in Northern Canada, which deal about
the various personality traits using Big five factors. To study the personality, in multiple works,
primary objective is to recognize the importance of specific traits and its consistency that build in
accord of behavior of people that are capable enough to give a particular kind of response
through dispositional theories. Personality can be defined as aggregation of different ways of life
and their action, which depict their unity, steadiness and uniformity. Thus, it takes place with
course of individual development (Luhmann et al., 2014).
Five-factor model recognize the five dimensions that show inclusive details about the
personality through the use of lexical hypothesis, which employs statistical and theoretical
approach, replicated in diverse cultural background (Fama & French, 2015). In this paper,
investigation of cross-cultural diversity is done through the five factors often regarded as
OCEAN trait factor (Brandstätter, & Opp, 2014). The study of various kind of personality,
OCEAN distinguish five characters of nature. Openness (O), conscientiousness (C), extraversion
(E). Agreeableness (A) and neuroticism (N). Inuit culture is isolated from the western
atmosphere; hence; personality trait shows a range of different social and cultural behavior
(Alam, Stepanov & Riccardi, 2013). Five-factor model applies useful analysis of five
characteristics. Openness means being inquisitive and original. Conscientiousness shows the
personality of being responsible, while extraversion depicts gregariousness, agreeable traits
identifies collaboration; lastly, Neuroticism highlights anxiousness and inconclusiveness
(Rauthmann et al., 2015). Research has shown that the application of five-factor model is
operative in developing cross-cultural questionnaire because it measures the five known bipolar
aspects which show great skill to make specific profiles, of human traits (Gore, & Widiger,

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2013). As cross-cultural methods have reflected limitation in equating traits scores across
different culture, studies have emphasized on applying this model to children, through evaluation
of parents and teachers, defines the personality of young individual and adolescents (Kral et al.,
2014).
According to Stoughton, hompso and Meade, (2013) International Personality Item Pool
is an accumulation of personality items obtainable by everyone around the globe through
facilitating the execution of research grounded on character in free. It is often operated through
databases irrespective of geographical locations. IPIP has contributed in developing
questionnaires as IPIP comes in over 25 different languages that made easy for researcher to
analyses the measures for various individual and supports other organization to review and
improvise different set of personality traits scales (Jhonson, 2014). IPIP has three beneficial
factors 1. They are cost-free; 2. Data can be obtained easily through internet; 3. It contains over
200 items which are instantaneously available (Cooper, Campbell-Bridges, & McCord, 2017).
Therefore, IPIP is the critical source that allow to effortlessly identification of the correct set of
scales and measure to construct questionnaires for Inuit children to identify their personality.
From criterion set by the study, in the response of that it is crucial to develop an IPIP-25
based questionnaire that showed ensured dependability of response followed by conversion of
language into those of Inuktitut language. For the measurement of Big five-factor as per the
purpose of study it is important to develop questionnaire. It is important to note that Inuit
children in Northern Canada, their culture maintain the different intellectual and perceptual
abilities that aim to find their foundation in closeness of mother-child during the juvenile period.
Inuit culture still believes in keeping the values and traditions of native culture (Schwan, &