Faculty of Humanities.
School of Humanities and Communitiy Development.
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tespsuch@yahoo.com / The five-factor model (FFM) of personality has established itself as the predominant
model of personality trait structure (Digman, 1990). The NEO-PI-R has been used as one
of the most useful FFM measures. Its reliability and validity has been approved through
out the world and this study sought to explore the utility of the NEO-PI-R in the Eritrean
context as well by translating the NEO-PI-R English version into Tigrigna language.
Reliability and validity analyses were considered and an effort was also made to establish
Eritrean norms. The descriptive statistics, norms and reliability co-efficients obtained in
this study were not exactly similar to the USA sample, and this was not surprising having
cultural difference, however, it was quite satisfactory as a pioneer study in Eritrean
context. The scree plot showed that five factors could be extracted in this study. These
findings lend support to an extent to the cross-cultural applicability of the instrument. In
addition evidence of face, and content validity explorations indicated that this instrument
was valid across cultures. Further evidence from inter-group comparisons across
variables like age, gender, and level of education supports this argument. However, since
the sample size and composition were problematic, there was question in the norming. As
a whole the study suggested that NEO-PI-R could make a contribution in the Eritrean
context as an initial personality assessment instrument.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1456 |
| Date | 26 October 2006 |
| Creators | Teferi, Tesfay |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 2343656 bytes, 52658 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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