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What Is Beyond the Big Five? Plenty!
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In a recent analysis of personality data, Saucier and Goldberg (1998) sought to answer the question, What is beyond the Big Five? Those authors evaluated numerous clusters of English person‐descriptive adjectives that have been suspected of referring to non–Big Five dimensions of personality. Their results led them to conclude that most, if not all, traits of personality can be adequately subsumed within the Big Five factor space. In contrast, our reanalysis of Saucier and Goldberg’s own data, using a more realistic criterion for deciding on whether a variable does or does not fall within a particular factor space, contradicts their claim. We are led to the conclusion that there are plenty of dimensions of behavior beyond the Big Five.
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- Authors
- Paunonen, S. V., & Jackson, D. N.
- Affiliations
- Western University (CA)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-10
- Volume
- 68
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 821-835
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2036045338
- Cited by
- 454
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 25
- FWCI
- 17.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- Big Five personality traits, personality factors, reanalysis, factor space
- MeSH terms
- Female, Humans, Male, Personality, Psychological Theory
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