Kunnel John Roshin, Xavier Boby, Waldmeier Anja, Meyer Andrea, Gaab Jens
Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Front Psychol. 2019 May 9;10:1057. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01057. eCollection 2019.
The Five-Factor Model (FFM) is one of the most commonly examined constructs of personality across cultures in recent times. However, there is a lacuna of evidence for the suitability of FFM measures for Indian adolescent school students below the age of 17 years. We carried out two independent studies for the psychometric evaluation of the measures BFI-10 and NEO-FFI-3 on Indian adolescent school students. Both studies examined two socio-culturally distinct linguistic groups of secondary and senior secondary school students with a total sample of = 1117 students. There was very limited support for a five-factor solution in both cases. Model fit was poor when applying FFM measures to our samples, whether applying confirmatory factor analysis or exploratory structural equation models. The results provide evidence against using adult personality measures with adolescents without separate psychometric validation and applying the Western age norms to Indian students without considering that the process of personality consolidation during adolescence may not be identical across cultures.
五因素模型(FFM)是近年来跨文化研究中最常被检验的人格结构之一。然而,对于17岁以下印度青少年学生而言,缺乏证据表明FFM测量方法适用于他们。我们针对印度青少年学生对大五人格量表简版(BFI-10)和大五人格量表第三版(NEO-FFI-3)进行了两项独立的心理测量学评估研究。两项研究均考察了社会文化背景不同的两组学生,即初中生和高中生,总样本量为1117名学生。在这两种情况下,支持五因素模型的证据都非常有限。将FFM测量方法应用于我们的样本时,无论是采用验证性因素分析还是探索性结构方程模型,模型拟合度都很差。研究结果表明,在未进行单独心理测量学验证的情况下,不应将成人人格测量方法用于青少年,也不应在未考虑到不同文化中青少年人格巩固过程可能不同的情况下,将西方年龄标准应用于印度学生。