Abstract
Personality testing in Turkey has escalated in recent years even though the number of tests with solid psychometric properties is very low. Tests developed or adapted in recent years show a tendency to reveal a structure similar to that of Five-Factor Model. The Turkish version of the NEO-PI-R produced a factor structure that had five factors and that was congruent with the original factor structure. The scores from the adult sample showed some discrepancies from the original normative sample. Correlations with age and gender differences were similar to those obtained in other studies. The discrepancies between the Turkish adult sample and the American normative sample are possibly functions of cultural differences as well as the contextual factors that were influential on the response patterns of the Turkish sample. A second study with bilingual respondents displayed high correlations between the scores on the English and Turkish versions of the NEO-PI-R, and there were significant differences between the two versions on four facet scores. These differences are interpreted in the framework of cultural contexts triggered by language.
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Gülgöz, S. (2002). Five-Factor Model and NEO-PI-R in Turkey. In: McCrae, R.R., Allik, J. (eds) The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0763-5_9
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