Problems with the Big Five assessment in the World Values Survey
Problems with the Big Five assessment in the World Values Survey
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DOI：
10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.042
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Larsen, Erik Gahner
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作者：
Ludeke, Steven G.;Larsen, Erik Gahner
来自世界价值观调查（WVS）的公开数据对社会科学家来说是极其宝贵的资源，是数千种研究出版物的基础。最近的一次评估（第6波）是第一次评估大五人格特质，这些数据已经被用于已发表的研究。在本文中，我们首次表明，来自WVS Wave 6的大五数据是非常有问题的：来自同一特质的项目往往彼此呈负相关，偶尔会达到真正的极端程度。未来任何旨在使用这些数据的研究都需要特别谨慎，因为我们没有找到任何直接解决数据挑战的方法。(C)2017爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有
Publicly-available data from the World Values Survey (WVS) is an extremely valuable resource for social scientists, serving as the basis for thousands of research publications. The most recent assessment (Wave 6) was the first to assess Big Five personality traits, and this data has already been used in published research. In the present paper, we show for the first time that the Big Five data from WVS Wave 6 is extremely problematic: items from the same trait correlate negatively with each other as often as not, occasionally to truly extreme degrees. Particular caution is warranted for any future research aiming to use this data, as we do not identify any straightforward solution to the data's challenges.(C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.