Robert R. McCrae

TL;DR: Using a sample of 315 adult men and women, self- reports on Wiggins's revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales were jointly factored with self-reports, peer ratings, and spouse ratings on the NEO Personality Inventory to examine the relations between the two models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the intrinsic maturation of personality is complemented by the culturally conditioned development of characteristic adaptations that express personality; interventions in human development are best addressed to these.

TL;DR: The authors showed that Revised NEO-PI scales are not simple-structured but do approximate the normative 5-factor structure, however, goodness-of-fit indices were not high.

TL;DR: Aggregate scores on Revised NEO Personality Inventory scales generalized across age and sex groups, approximated the individual-level 5-factor model, and correlated with aggregate self-report personality scores and other culture-level variables, suggesting that aggregate personality profiles provide insight into cultural differences.

TL;DR: The five-factor model is a dimensional representation of personality structure that has recently gained widespread acceptance among personality psychologists as mentioned in this paper, and measures of the five factors can be used to analyze personality disorder scales and to profile the traits of personality-disordered patient groups; findings may be useful in diagnosing individuals.