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The NEO Five-Factor Inventory in Czech, Polish, and Slovak Contexts

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures

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The principal aim of this chapter is to investigate the validity and the generalized applicability of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) across three different countries and languages. These countries represent West Slavic branches of the Indo-European languages. We first examine the psychometric characteristics of the NEO-FFI (reliabilities, factor structure of the items, and congruence coefficients). Next, we compare four instruments proposed to measure the five personality dimensions, namely the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, the Five-Factor Personality Inventory, the Big Five Questionnaire, and the Czech Big Five Markers. We report data regarding their reliability and convergent and discriminant validity using multitrait-multimethod analysis and structural equation modeling. Finally, we compare Czech, Polish, and Slovak adolescents on the scales of the NEO-FFI.

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  1. Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

    Martina Hřebíčková, Tomáš Urbánek & Ivo Čermák

  2. Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology, Poland

    Piotr Szarota

  3. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

    Emília Ficková & Lucia Orlická

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Hřebíčková, M., Urbánek, T., Čermák, I., Szarota, P., Ficková, E., Orlická, L. (2002). The NEO Five-Factor Inventory in Czech, Polish, and Slovak Contexts. In: McCrae, R.R., Allik, J. (eds) The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0763-5_4

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