Exploring the personality structure in the 11 languages of South Africa
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2012Author
Nel, Jan Alewyn
Rothmann, Sebastiaan
Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.
Valchev, Velichko H.
Meiring, Deon
De Bruin, Gideon P.
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The present study, part of the development of the South
African Personality Inventory (SAPI), explores the implicit personality
structure in the 11 official language groups of South Africa by employing
a mixed-method approach. In the first, qualitative part of the study,
semistructured interviews were conducted with 1,216 participants from
the 11 official language groups. The derived personality-descriptive terms
were categorized and clustered based on their semantic relations in iterative
steps involving group discussions and contacts with language and
cultural experts. This analysis identified 37 subclusters, which could be
merged in 9 broad clusters: Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability,
Extraversion, Facilitating, Integrity, Intellect, Openness, Relationship
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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/17919http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00751.x/abstract
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00751.x
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