Zhang Yuching, Kohnstamm Geldolph, Slotboom Anne-Marie, Elphick Eric, Cheung Ping Chung
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
J Genet Psychol. 2002 Jun;163(2):165-78. doi: 10.1080/00221320209598675.
The authors coded Chinese (n = 401) and Dutch (n = 324) parents' free descriptions of their 3- to 14-year-old children's personalities using a 14-category coding system partially based on the Big Five. Of the Chinese and Dutch personality descriptors, 86% and 77%, respectively, could be classified in the first 5 main categories resembling the five-factor model of adult personality. No significant differences were found for gender, socio-economic status, or city in these categories. Chinese parents of school age children generated many more descriptors, mostly critical, in the domain of conscientiousness. The findings reflect Chinese high achievement orientation and show that the classification system, which presently serves as a basis for developing indigenous questionnaires for personality assessment of children in China and some Western countries, is sensitive to cultural differences.
作者使用一个部分基于大五人格的14类编码系统，对401名中国和324名荷兰父母关于其3至14岁孩子性格的自由描述进行了编码。在中国人和荷兰人的性格描述词中，分别有86%和77%可归入与成人人格五因素模型相似的前5个主要类别。在这些类别中，未发现性别、社会经济地位或城市方面存在显著差异。中国学龄儿童的父母在尽责性领域产生了更多描述词，且大多是批评性的。研究结果反映了中国人的高成就取向，并表明该分类系统对文化差异敏感，目前该系统是为中国和一些西方国家开发儿童人格评估本土问卷的基础。
