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Psychometric Evaluation of the BFI-10 and the NEO-FFI-3 in Indian Adolescents

The Five-Factor Model (FFM) is one of the most commonly examined constructs of personality across cultures in recent times. However, there is a lacuna of evidence for the suitability of FFM measures for Indian adolescent school students below the age of 17 years. We carried out two independent studi...

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Autores principales: Kunnel John, Roshin, Xavier, Boby, Waldmeier, Anja, Meyer, Andrea, Gaab, Jens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143151
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01057
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author Kunnel John, Roshin
Xavier, Boby
Waldmeier, Anja
Meyer, Andrea
Gaab, Jens
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description The Five-Factor Model (FFM) is one of the most commonly examined constructs of personality across cultures in recent times. However, there is a lacuna of evidence for the suitability of FFM measures for Indian adolescent school students below the age of 17 years. We carried out two independent studies for the psychometric evaluation of the measures BFI-10 and NEO-FFI-3 on Indian adolescent school students. Both studies examined two socio-culturally distinct linguistic groups of secondary and senior secondary school students with a total sample of N = 1117 students. There was very limited support for a five-factor solution in both cases. Model fit was poor when applying FFM measures to our samples, whether applying confirmatory factor analysis or exploratory structural equation models. The results provide evidence against using adult personality measures with adolescents without separate psychometric validation and applying the Western age norms to Indian students without considering that the process of personality consolidation during adolescence may not be identical across cultures.
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spelling pubmed-65207572019-05-29 Psychometric Evaluation of the BFI-10 and the NEO-FFI-3 in Indian Adolescents Kunnel John, Roshin Xavier, Boby Waldmeier, Anja Meyer, Andrea Gaab, Jens Front Psychol Psychology The Five-Factor Model (FFM) is one of the most commonly examined constructs of personality across cultures in recent times. However, there is a lacuna of evidence for the suitability of FFM measures for Indian adolescent school students below the age of 17 years. We carried out two independent studies for the psychometric evaluation of the measures BFI-10 and NEO-FFI-3 on Indian adolescent school students. Both studies examined two socio-culturally distinct linguistic groups of secondary and senior secondary school students with a total sample of N = 1117 students. There was very limited support for a five-factor solution in both cases. Model fit was poor when applying FFM measures to our samples, whether applying confirmatory factor analysis or exploratory structural equation models. The results provide evidence against using adult personality measures with adolescents without separate psychometric validation and applying the Western age norms to Indian students without considering that the process of personality consolidation during adolescence may not be identical across cultures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6520757/ /pubmed/31143151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01057 Text en Copyright © 2019 Kunnel John, Xavier, Waldmeier, Meyer and Gaab. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Psychometric Evaluation of the BFI-10 and the NEO-FFI-3 in Indian Adolescents
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title_short Psychometric Evaluation of the BFI-10 and the NEO-FFI-3 in Indian Adolescents
title_sort psychometric evaluation of the bfi-10 and the neo-ffi-3 in indian adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520757/
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