Block J
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-1650.
Psychol Bull. 1995 Mar;117(2):187-215. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.117.2.187.
The 5-factor approach (FFA) to personality description has been represented as a comprehensive and compelling rubric for assessment. In this article, various misgivings about the FFA are delineated. The algorithmic method of factor analysis may not provide dimensions that are incisive. The "discovery" of the five factors may be influenced by unrecognized constraints on the variable sets analyzed. Lexical analyses are based on questionable conceptual and methodological assumptions, and have achieved uncertain results. The questionnaire version of the FFA has not demonstrated the special merits and sufficiencies of the five factors settled upon. Serious uncertainties have arisen in regard to the claimed 5-factor structure and the substantive meanings of the factors. Some implications of these problems are drawn.
用于人格描述的五因素方法（FFA）已被视为一种全面且有说服力的评估准则。在本文中，阐述了对FFA的各种疑虑。因素分析的算法方法可能无法提供深刻的维度。五个因素的“发现”可能受到对所分析变量集未被认识到的限制的影响。词汇分析基于有问题的概念和方法假设，并且取得了不确定的结果。FFA的问卷版本并未证明所确定的五个因素具有特殊优点和充分性。关于所宣称的五因素结构以及各因素的实质意义已经出现了严重的不确定性。文中还得出了这些问题的一些影响。
