Factor Analysis Report: Personality Traits of Inuit Children

This report provides an introduction to a factor analysis study focusing on the personality traits of Inuit children in Northern Canada, utilizing the Big Five factors. It discusses the importance of specific traits and their consistency in shaping behavior, defining personality as an aggregation of life ways and actions. The study employs the five-factor model (OCEAN) to investigate cross-cultural diversity, acknowledging the unique social and cultural context of the Inuit culture. The International Personality Item Pool (IPIP-25) is identified as a crucial tool for developing a questionnaire suitable for this population, ensuring dependability and cultural relevance through translation into Inuktitut. The report highlights the importance of considering the cognitive skills and cultural values of Inuit children when designing effective and unbiased questions, aiming to explore openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism within this specific cultural context. The hypothesis suggests that the IPIP-25 item factor will reveal these traits in Inuit children, reflecting their distinct cultural personality.

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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, &
Lightman, 2015). Generally, Inuit family comprises of mother, father, children and uncle, aunt

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(Schlegel, 2013). They also believe that the result of child’s birth is retrieval of spirit of their
ancestors. Thus, they treat their child as adult who is set free to act and move and also expect that
they will construct mindfulness earlier than the western fellow. Therefore, to evaluate their
personality, it is of prime importance to focus on the Big five factor. There is the need to include
each child in the study and focus on their cognitive skills with goal to design effective and
quality questions to evade any misinterpretation. Hence, in this regard, Big five-factor is
association with IPIP-25 questionnaire is developed due to strong relationship among the B-5
and personality traits.
As per the objective of project, IPIP-25 is used to support the relevant questionnaire. IPIP
limits the duration of participation time and investment of capital in project with the purpose to
improve quality of research (Nauert, 2017). There is abundant presence of online material that
guides the concrete development of the short-term questionnaire. A stimulating feature of IPIP
lies on the fact that it inspires the worldwide academic interchange of content, that expand to
both multi-lingual and social rank; several versions of it has been produced and many
translations are present online to increase the dimension on comparative validity (Mehigan,
2013). IPIP is widely connected with western culture and their personality which is inclined by
environmental and biological factor (Carr, 2013). Thus, it helps in better analysis of character
and traits related to Inuit children. In one study, it is reported that IPIP is not reliable method
due to afflictive changes made by the participants (Topolewska et al., 2017). Therefore, IPIP
maintains the lexically constructed questions that can contradict the issue. IPIP- questionnaire
has used item descriptions that show phrase-composition to pursue OCEAN trait questions with
full translation in Inuit language (Gorbaniuk et al., 2017).

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Based on the questionnaire, hypothesis can be made on the basis of IPIP-25 analysis
which showed openness and its related features. According to the research, it can be predicted
that cultural personality in the life of children is reflected as being ethnic conscious (Badea et al.,
2015). This can be said based on the role model that illustrates the individual acquirement of
values and rules that is regarded as true Inuit. It can be said that children 9-12 of age overrule the
distinct personality. Inuit culture can be measured as communist culture, diverse from the
western culture and their communities. This can be justified by the recent that has been
conducted in this area and theory of Big five factors. Therefore, the hypothesis states that IPIP-
25 item factor examines the trait of children of Inuit background that showed openness,
realization, extraversion, sociability and neuroticism in them (C Findlay & E Kohen, 2013).

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