Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 6. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lu, Qing; Cui, Su
• Is Part Of: Personality and individual differences. Volume 199(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: World Value Survey (WVS) -- Big-Five assessment -- Cross-cultural research; Personality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Personality Development -- Periodicals; Personnalité -- Périodiques; Individualité -- Périodiques; 155.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111832
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-8869

Abstract

Abstract: A total of 41, 901 persons from 25 nations responded to the 10-item Big-Five assessment in the sixth wave of the World Value Survey (WVS). However, Ludeke and Larsen (2017) concluded that these data were problematic because they found that two items of the same trait correlated abnormally with each other. Nevertheless, after a close inspection of the WVS questionnaires and the data, we found a series of procedures that make the data usable. Specifically, after deleting India, Rwanda, and one "openness to experience" item (i.e., has few art interests), all of which have translation problems, the remaining nine items corrected for acquiescence bias could extract a clear five-factor structure. Congruence coefficient analysis further excluded Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, and South Africa, whose factor structures are distant from the normative one. This study addresses Ludeke and Larsen's (2017) concerns and justifies the use of a sample of 23, 155 respondents from 18 nations in future cross-cultural research.