GENERAL DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY DESCRIP TION IN CZECH AND GERMAN LANGUAGES

Bipolar rating inventories developed by American authors in order to i dentify the Big-Five were translated into Czech and German. By analysi ng 171 bipolar adjectives, several goals were pursued: (I) to confirm the existence of the expected structure of the Big-Rye at bipolar rati ng scales in Czech and German; (2) to find out whether the factors der ived from the analysis of the Big-Five markers have got the same meani ng both in Czech and German; (3) to select appropriate feature descrip tors representing particular dimensions of the Big-Five in Czech; (4) to establish a validating criterion for the interpretation of factors out of the representative set of dispositional adjectives. The analysi s of the main components of 171 bipolar scales at both self- and peer- ratings has provided us with five dominant factors in Czech as well a s in German. The values of the congruence coefficients display the hig h rate of coherence in rating factors in both languages and soups. The extracted Czech and German factors can be interpreted in the sense of five-factor model, such as Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious ness, Emotional stability, and Imagination/Openness.