Analyzing Personality: Big Five Factors & Inuit Children's Traits

This discussion board post delves into the personality traits of Inuit children in Northern Canada, employing the Big Five factors. It assesses the consistency and importance of specific traits within this demographic, referencing dispositional theories and the Five-Factor Model. The discussion highlights the cross-cultural application of these models, particularly the OCEAN theory (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), to understand the unique cultural context of the Inuit people. The research emphasizes the development and implementation of a cross-cultural questionnaire, utilizing the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP-25) to ensure the dependability of responses and appropriate language conversion (Inuktitut). Ultimately, the study underscores the importance of preserving Inuit cultural values and traditions, noting that Inuit children are often viewed as individuals with their own conscientiousness from a young age, reflecting a communist culture distinct from Western norms. The study acknowledges limitations, such as potential biases in the IPIP application, but concludes that cultural personality in Inuit children reflects a strong ethnic consciousness.

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In the research study specific attention has been given to the various personality traits of
the Inuit children in Northern Canada using the Big five factors. The primary objective of the
research has been to evaluate and assess the importance of some specific traits and their
consistency in order to assume the degree of accord of behaviour of the concerned demography
that has the capacity to provide particular kind of response evaluated by dispositional theories.
Luhmann et al. (2014) has defined personality as the aggregation of different ways of life and
related actions that shows the unity that exit between the two and thereby established a uniform
analytic basis. Moreover, it has been observed that personality is a factor that evolves in the
course of individual development throughout the lifespan of the concerned individual. Moreover,
to carry on the momentum in the research study the Five-factor model has also been evaluated
and implemented recognizing the five dimensions that indicate about the exclusive details of
personality. This has been done through the use of a lexical hypothesis employing statistical and
theoretical approach that has been replicated through diversified cultural background. Fama and
French (2015) have put much emphasis on the aforesaid issue considering the importance of the
task of establishing a relationship between theoretical approach and diversified cultural
background. Brandstatter’s and Opp’s (2014) five factors have also been taken into account in
the course of the research study in order to investigate the cross-cultural diversity. In this respect
the study of multiple personality has been conducted in order to distinguish five characters of a
person’s nature. The OCEAN theory has then been implemented and evaluated to assess the
valaue of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism in a
thorough manner. The application of such theories have paved the way for the researcher to
understand a crucial factor, i.e., the culture of the Inuit people is the one alienated from the

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western cultures and that is the reason why Alam, Stepanov and Riccadi (2013) has observed that
their personality trend embodies different social and cultural behaviour. Moreover, in the context
of developing the cross-cultural questionnaire that acted as the backbone of the research study it
was necessary to apply the five factor model as it is an operative one that develops cross
culturally. The model measures the five known bipolar aspects that have been proved to show
great skill that make specific profiles especially of human traits (Gore & Widiger, 2013).
Moreover, in order to ascertain the personality traits of young individuals and adolescents the
researcher had been keen on applying the concerned model on children through the process of
evaluating the parents and teachers (Kral et al., 2014).
It has been noted that International Personality item pool is actually the accumulation of
personality items that can be obtained from everyone globally through the implementation of
specific processes including the process of facilitating the execution of research grounded freely
on character. The collection of this database has been done irrespective of geographical location
of the target demography. In this respect the importance of IPIP deserves special mention. This is
primarily because it has contributed thoroughly in the process of developing certain specific
questionnaires because of the advantage that IPIP usually comes in over twenty five languages.
Such diversification has helped the researcher to conduct thorough analysis of the measures
meant for various individual. Johnson (2014) has further elongated on the use by showing how it
supports organization in terms of reviewing and improvising different sets of personality trait
scales. The research has also highlighted the benefits of the IPIP that has been composed of
myriads of factors like they are cost-free, the application can pave the way for the obtainment of
data easily through the Internet, and it contains more than two hundred items that are available
on an instant basis. Cooper, Campbell and McCord (2017) have considered the IPIP as a crucial

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source and the researcher has also admitted the fact. The researcher has admitted that IPIP can
allow to effortlessly identify the correct set of scales and it can help in the measurement that
needs to construct questionnaires mainly for Intuit children in order to identify their personality
trait in details.
It has to be taken into consideration that the concerned research study actually hinted on
the need of developing an IPIP-25 based questionnaire that definitely showed and ensured the
dependability of the responses followed by language conversion on the part of the concerned
Intuit population. The conversion of the language to the Inuktitut language was one of the needs
that had to be satisfied by the researcher in a thorough manner. The researcher also felt it
essential to develop a particular set of questionnaire in order to measure the Big Five factors that
were meant to analyze the language and cultural trait of the Inuit people. The research did find
that the Inuit children residing in Northern Canada maintain different intellectual and perceptual
abilities that were necessary to study and understand in order to understand the mother-child
relationship among the concerned population in the context of the juvenile period precisely. The
researcher did find that Schwan and Lightman (2015) had already suggested that in the context
of the Inuit culture it is strongly believed that values of the culture and its traditions should be
restored at any cost. The form and pattern of the Inuit family is a pointer to the fact that the Inuit
people are keener at upholding their culture and ideological patterns in a thorough manner.
Schlegel (2013) has observed that Inuit family, which is comprised of mother, father, children
and extended family members do believe that child’s birth is a phenomenon which describes the
retrieval of their ancestor’s spirit. This particular concept has compelled the Inuit parents to treat
their children as adult human beings and it is owing to this factor that the Inuit children under
observation were observed to be leading their own way of life. In this regard the importance of

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mindfulness growth among the concerned Inuit children was observed to be happening much
earlier than their Western counterparts. It is in order to evaluate the personality trait of the
concerned Inuit children that the research study relied much on the application, implementation
and interpretation of the Big Five factors in an explicit manner. In this regard it should be noted
that each child was included in the study and focus was given on their cognitive skills. The
objective was to design an effective and quality questionnaire that was useful for keeping at bay
any kind of misinterpretation. Hence, it was quite natural for the research to include the Big Five
factors in association with IPIP-25 questionnaire that was developed to unearth the strong
relationship among the Big five factors and the Inuit personality traits. Moreover, it must be
noted that following the need of accomplishing the objective the study used IPIP-25 for
supporting and constructing the relevant questionnaire. For improving the quality of research, as
Nauret has observed (2017) it is essential to limit the duration of participation time and
investment of capital in the concerned project by the application of IPIP. It has also to be noted
that the researcher took help of online materials for the purpose of guiding the concrete
development of the concerned short-term questionnaire in specific. It can be interesting to note
that IPIP was wideldy connected with western cultural ideologies in terms of deciphering the
personality of the concerned Inuit population that experiences several specific environmental and
biological factor and Carr (2013) confirmed the same in one of the studies. Carr (2013) did state
that such inclusion helps in analysing the characters and traits of people of other culture in a
distinct and proper way.
But the study suffered from some specific limitations. For an instance, the use of IPIP was
criticized as it was considered limited. Participants tended to make affective changes and this
made the implementation of IPIP somewhat unreliable in the present research context. The

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research study also suffered from the limitation that was triggered by the use of IPIP. This should
be said by citing the supporting fact that IPIP has the trait to maintain the lexically constructed
questions that have the potential to contradict the issue of research, which, in this case, has been
related to the culture and practices of the Inuit people and the Inuit children in specific. But
eventually the research study predicted that cultural personality in the life of the Inuit children
did reflect an ethnic consciousness and this finding has been supported by the findings of Badea
et al.(2015). The study did also find that there are certain specific cultural traits and values that
are nurtured and preserved by the Inuit people and the process of nurturing land preserving starts
from their very childhood in which an Inuit child is often considered to be an adult individual
having own conscientiousness in specific. Moreover, it should be taken into account that the
research study did prove that the Inuit culture is measureable as a communist culture that is quite
different from Western cultures and Western communities and their ideologies in specific.

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