CROSS-CULTURAL GENERALIZABILITY OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS - RELATING INDIGENOUS AND IMPORTED DIMENSIONS IN 2 CULTURES

The cross-cultural generalizability of personality dimensions was inve stigated by (a)identifying indigenous Philippine dimensions, (b) testi ng the cross-cultural replicability of the NEO 5-factor model (P. T. C osta & R. R. McCrae, 1992), and (c) relating Philippine and Western di mensions in Philippine and U.S. samples of college students. Filipino self-ratings (N = 536) on indigenous items were factor analyzed, and 6 Philippine dimensions were obtained. Conclusions about the replicabil ity of the 5-factor model in the Philippines(N = 432) depended on whet her exploratory, Procrustes, or confirmatory factor methods were used. In regression and joint factor analyses, moderate to strong associati ons were found between the Philippine dimensions and (a) dimensions fr om the 5-factor model in both Philippine (N = 387) and U.S. (N= 610)sa mples, and (b) the Tellegen model(A. Tellegen, 1985; A. Tellegen & N. G. Waller, in press) in a U.S. sample (N = 603).