INDIGENOUS PERSONALITY MEASURES - PHILIPPINE EXAMPLES

After noting the need for indigenous Scale construction efforts in the Philippines, the current article focuses on the development and curre nt status of two multidimensional measures of Filipino personality con structs, plus two projects that are investigating indigenous Filipino personality structure. In a final section, we note apparent convergenc es between the personality dimensions identified and assessed by these four projects and consider how these dimensions might relate to purpo rted universal dimensions of personality (i.e., the ''Big Five'' dimen sions).