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Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers.

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Two data sources--self-reports and peer ratings--and two instruments--adjective factors and questionnaire scales--were used to assess the five-factor model of personality, showing substantial cross-observer agreement on all five adjective factors.
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Two data sources--self-reports and peer ratings--and two instruments--adjective factors and questionnaire scales--were used to assess the five-factor model of personality. As in a previous study of self-reports (McCrae & Costa, 1985b), adjective factors of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness-antagonism, and conscientiousness-undirectedness were identified in an analysis of 738 peer ratings of 275 adult subjects. Intraclass correlations among raters, ranging from .30 to .65, and correlations between mean peer ratings and self-reports, from .25 to .62, showed substantial cross-observer agreement on all five adjective factors. Similar results were seen in analyses of scales from the NEO Personality Inventory. Items from the adjective factors were used as guides in a discussion of the nature of the five factors. These data reinforce recent appeals for the adoption of the five-factor model in personality research and assessment.

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Thinking about people: Contributions of a typological alternative to associationistic and dimensional models of person perception.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of person type membership on impression priming and perceived trait belongingness were examined, controlling for associationistic and dimensional factors, and results validated the unique contribution of a typological approach to person perception.
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Parental Styles, Conscientiousness, and Academic Performance in High School: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study

TL;DR: Structural equation modeling showed that adolescents with more authoritative parents experienced less of a decrease in conscientiousness at Time 2 than did students with less authoritative parents and the same baseline level of conscientiousnessat Time 1.
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Are They Here for the Long Haul? The Effects of Functional Motives and Personality Factors on the Psychological Contracts of Volunteers:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the concepts of the psychological contract, functional motivation, and the five-factor model of personality and explain how these should relate to one another and how they should be related to each other.
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Individual Differences in Infant Temperament Predict Social Relationships of Yearling Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

TL;DR: Although kinship, rank, and sex influenced relationship formation as expected, temperament remained a significant predictor of affiliative preferences even after controlling for these variables.
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Descriptive consistency and social desirability in self‐and peer reports

TL;DR: In this paper, 300 subjects were administered 20 sets of four trait-descriptive terms where aspects of content and evaluation were unconfounded (e.g., firm, severe, lenient, and lax).
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