TY - JOUR
T1 - African Cultures and the Five-Factor Model of Personality
T2 - Evidence for a Specific Pan-African Structure and Profile?
AU - Zecca, Gregory
AU - Verardi, Sabrina
AU - Antonietti, Jean Philippe
AU - Dahourou, Donatien
AU - Adjahouisso, Marcel
AU - Ah-Kion, Jennifer
AU - Amoussou-Yeye, Dénis
AU - Barry, Oumar
AU - Bhowon, Uma
AU - Bouatta, Cherifa
AU - Dougoumalé Cissé, Daouda
AU - Mbodji, Mamadou
AU - Meyer de Stadelhofen, Franz
AU - Minga Minga, David
AU - Ng Tseung, Caroline
AU - Nouri Romdhane, Mohamed
AU - Ondongo, François
AU - Rigozzi, Christine
AU - Sfayhi, Nicole
AU - Tsokini, Dieudonné
AU - Rossier, Jérôme
PY - 2013/7/1
Y1 - 2013/7/1
N2 - The purpose of this study was to assess if a specific personality structure and personality profile might be observed in Africa comparing data from four African regions (N = 1,774) with data from Burkina Faso (N = 717) and Switzerland (N = 1,787), according to the Five-Factor Model (FFM). A total of 4,278 participants completed the French version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) made up of 240 items. Concerning the structure, a recombination of Extraversion and Agreeableness in two factors labeled Love and Dominance was observed before targeted factor analyses. After Procrustes rotation, the Swiss factorial structure replicated well in Africa. The only specificity was that the Excitement Seeking facet scale loaded consistently on the Openness factor in Africa. However, personality structures obtained in different African regions were not more similar among themselves than they were to the structure found in Switzerland. Finally, multigroup confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the NEO-PI-R dimensions reached configural and metric invariances, but not scalar invariance, indicating that the mean personality profiles might be difficult to compare. Thus, this study showed no evidence for a unique pan-African structure.
AB - The purpose of this study was to assess if a specific personality structure and personality profile might be observed in Africa comparing data from four African regions (N = 1,774) with data from Burkina Faso (N = 717) and Switzerland (N = 1,787), according to the Five-Factor Model (FFM). A total of 4,278 participants completed the French version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) made up of 240 items. Concerning the structure, a recombination of Extraversion and Agreeableness in two factors labeled Love and Dominance was observed before targeted factor analyses. After Procrustes rotation, the Swiss factorial structure replicated well in Africa. The only specificity was that the Excitement Seeking facet scale loaded consistently on the Openness factor in Africa. However, personality structures obtained in different African regions were not more similar among themselves than they were to the structure found in Switzerland. Finally, multigroup confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the NEO-PI-R dimensions reached configural and metric invariances, but not scalar invariance, indicating that the mean personality profiles might be difficult to compare. Thus, this study showed no evidence for a unique pan-African structure.
KW - Africa
KW - cross-cultural psychology
KW - Five-Factor Model
KW - personality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878768763&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0022022112468943
DO - 10.1177/0022022112468943
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878768763
SN - 0022-0221
VL - 44
SP - 684
EP - 700
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
IS - 5
ER -