文档介绍：Journal of Personality and Social Psychology In the public domain
1987, Vol. 52, No. 1,81-90
Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality Across
Instruments and Observers
Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, Jr.
Gerontology Research Center,
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Two data sources—self-reports and peer ratings—and two instruments—adjective factors and ques-
tionnaire 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.
Perhaps in response to critiques of trait models (Mischel, Kenrick and Dantchik (1983) complaine