Hostname: page-component-54dcc4c588-54gsr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-10-14T05:10:11.162Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Personality Assessment in a Collectivist Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Lynn Frewer  and
Anne V. Bleus
Lynn Frewer*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology & Philosophy, University of Papua New Guinea
Anne V. Bleus
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology & Philosophy, University of Papua New Guinea
*
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Papua New Guinea has been defined as a collectivist (as opposed to individualist) culture (Triandis et al., 1986a). The aim of this study was to examine the effects of allocentricity on a standardised personality test, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, using a sample of Papua New Guinean university students. The responses of 256 subjects were factor analysed. The 22 factors extracted in the first-order analysis were reduced to eight factors in a higher-order analysis. These eight factors were only psychologically meaningful if interpreted within the context of a collectivist society. The implications for cross-cultural personality assessment are considered.

Information

Type
Articles
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 4 , 1991 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea & University College of Central Queensland 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

REFERENCES

Bijen, E., Van Der Net, T., & Poortinga, Y. (1986). On cross-cultural studies with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 17, 3–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bleus, A. (1988). Mipela, yumi, and mi tasol: Dimensions of self in Papua New Guinea. Unpublished manuscript, University of Papua New Guinea.Google Scholar
Dixon, W. (Ed.) (1985). BMDP statistical software. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Eysenck, H., & Eysenck, S. (1964). Manual of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. San Diego: Hodder & Stoughton.Google Scholar
Eysenck, S., & Eysenck, H. (1975). Manual of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. London: Hodder & Stoughton.Google Scholar
Frewer, L. (1988). Reliability of the Eysenck Personality Inventory in Papua New Guinean populations. Unpublished research report, Department of Psychology & Philosophy, University of Papua New Guinea.Google Scholar
Guildford, J. (1954). Psychometric methods. New York: McGraw Hill.Google Scholar
Hofstede, G. (1980). Culture's consequences. Beverly Hills: Sage.Google Scholar
Lynn, R. (1981). Dimensions of personality: Papers in honour of H. J. Eysenck. Oxford: Pergammon Press.Google Scholar
Price, J. (1974). A cross-cultural study of personality. Research report from the Psychology Laboratory, University of Papua New Guinea, Report No. 5.Google Scholar
Triandis, C., Bontempo, R., Betancourt, H., Bond, M., Leung, K., Brenes, A., Georgas, J., Hui, H., Marin, G., Setidadi, B., Sinha, J., Verma, J., Spangenberg, J., Touzard, H., & Montmollin, G. (1986a). The measurement of etic aspects of individualism and collectivism across cultures. Australian Journal of Psychology, 38, 257–267.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Triandis, H., Bontempo, R., Villareal, M., Asai, M., & Lucca, N. (1986b). Individualism and collectivism: Cross-cultural perspectives on self-ingroup relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 323–338.CrossRefGoogle Scholar