THE STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY ACROSS CULTURES

The purpose of this article is to review several popular, structured, personality questionnaires in terms of their applicability in cross-cu ltural assessment contexts. Prior to our review, we describe the types of psychometric data that can be used to support claims of a measure' s cross-cultural applicability. More important, we list several factor s, not all of which have to do with the measure itself, that can under mine such cross-cultural evidence. We then review relevant cross-cultu ral data on the California Psychological Inventory, the Comrey Persona lity Scales, the 16 Personality Factors Questionnaire, the Pavlovian T emperament Survey, the Personality Research Form, and the Nonverbal Pe rsonality Questionnaire. We show that those inventories have each demo nstrated mostly replicable factor structures across cultures. In contr ast, relatively little data are available regarding the cross-cultural generality of their criterion validities.