Factor Analysis of Personality Data

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Factor Analysis of personality Data

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Effectiveness of the Five Factor Model in Developing Cross-Cultural Questionnaire.........3
Contribution of IPIP to the Development of Individual Personality Questionnaire..............4
Reasons behind the Development of a Questionnaire............................................................4
IPIP Measures............................................................................................................................8
Hypothesis of Individual Thinking........................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Five-Factor model is regarded as big five personality traits, which is a model or set of five
trait domains. Sometimes, it is also known as “Big Five”. Five trait dimensions of this
particular model are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience and
conscientiousness. This specific model is also referred as a model of the personality of an
individual, which divides this model into five different factors or traits. International
Personality Item Pool (IPIP) is considered as the public domain, which is majorly used for the
purpose of personality test through the collection of essential items (Judge & Zapata, 2015).
The effectiveness of the Five Factor Model in Developing Cross-Cultural Questionnaire
The discussion of the following section is about the effectiveness of Five-Factor Model in
developing the cross-cultural questionnaire. This particular model basically helps in
personality test of the individual. Five Factor Model is also defined as the universal structure,
which is also used for the research related to cross-cultural. To develop cross-cultural
questionnaires with the help of Five-Factor Model it is essential to keep in mind the two
essential qualifications of this model such as these five traits or factors are universal that does
not mean there are not any extra personality traits particular to the culture of the individual.
The second one is all factors of this model are not important equally in all cultures. Revised
NEO Personality Inventory, which is used for measuring the questionnaire related to the Five
Factor Model, therefore, it has been translated into different languages recently and allowing
the test of the questionnaire in relation to cross-cultural (Soto & John, 2017). Moreover, Five
Factor Model is also used for addressing lots of questions related to culture and personality.
This specific model also facilitates in assessing the board personality domains in each culture
including examining the same properly.

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The contribution of IPIP to the Development of Individual Personality Questionnaire
Now a day the usage of International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) has been increased
considerably in the personality test. IPIP plays a vital role in terms of developing the
individual personality questionnaire along with testing the personality of human being. To
make sure the proper test items from International Personality Item Pool have been translated
into above 25 different languages. More than, 80 publications are using scales of IPIP for the
purpose of personality testing, which is listed in IPIP website. The rate in relation to IPIP
publications in increasing day by day and this raising popularity related to IPIP can be
qualified to five aspects, for example, IPIP is cost-free and items of IPIP can be acquired
through the internet, more than 2000 items are available, which can be obtained easily for
testing and inspection. There is a facility of providing scoring keys in the behalf of IPIP
scales. The items of IPIP can be offered in any sequence (O'Boyle et al., 2015). In addition,
items of IPIP are also used for the assessments of the personality of the individual and the use
of IPIP is helpful for all individual as it provides reliable score along with facilitates in
gaining information regarding characters of the individual.
Reasons behind the Development of a Questionnaire
A case has been developed in this particular section to obtain information regarding the
reason behind the development of the questionnaire.