Thursday 23 July 14:05
- 15:35
Hall: 16 - Room 13 SA
Chair:
Cheung Fanny
Discussant:
Di Fabio Annamaria
Division: Division 2: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation
Personality assessment in non-Western cultures used to rely on translated imported measures
purported to represent universal personality traits without consideration of local relevance. Early
attempts to develop indigenous personality measures were critiqued for their lack of incremental
validity. Recent developments using the combined emic-etic approach have resolved the
dichotomy of the universal approach versus indigenous approach in producing culturally relevant
personality measures with culturally relevant constructs beyond the dominant universal
dimensions. Presenters in this symposium share recent research findings on their personality
measures based on the combined emic-etic method.
Amber Gayle Thalmayer introduces the Cross-Cultural Big Two, a common-denominator model
and inventory drawn from global emic lexical studies. Weiqiao Fan presents his team's
reconstruction of a new two-polarities personality model based on indigenously derived Eastern
measures such as the CPAI-A that include the functions of self vs. relatedness on the one hand,
and independence-interdependence on the other hand. Mingjie Zhou shares their team's recent
research illustrating the validity of the Interpersonal Relatedness dimension from the CPAI-2
which is distinct from other universal dimensions. Ron Fischer describes his team's a bottom-up
lexical approach focusing on adjectives (or verbs) to describe fictional characters which provides
an alternative bottom-up exploration of context-sensitive personality structure.
