TY - JOUR
T1 - The Big Five Inventory–2 in China
T2 - A Comprehensive Psychometric Evaluation in Four Diverse Samples
AU - Zhang, Bo
AU - Li, Yi Ming
AU - Li, Jian
AU - Luo, Jing
AU - Ye, Yonghao
AU - Yin, Lu
AU - Chen, Zhuosheng
AU - Soto, Christopher J.
AU - John, Oliver P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFC2003000) awarded to Dr. Jian Li.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) has received wide recognition since its publication because it strikes a good balance between content coverage and brevity. The current study translated the BFI-2 into Chinese, evaluated its psychometric properties in four diverse Chinese samples (college students, adult employees, adults treated for substance use, and adolescents), and compared its factor structure with those obtained from two U.S. samples. Across two studies, the Chinese BFI-2 demonstrated good reliability (Cronbach’s α and test–retest reliability), structural validity, convergent/discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity at the domain level. At lower levels of analyses, some facets and negatively worded items functioned better among participants with higher than those with lower education levels. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
AB - The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) has received wide recognition since its publication because it strikes a good balance between content coverage and brevity. The current study translated the BFI-2 into Chinese, evaluated its psychometric properties in four diverse Chinese samples (college students, adult employees, adults treated for substance use, and adolescents), and compared its factor structure with those obtained from two U.S. samples. Across two studies, the Chinese BFI-2 demonstrated good reliability (Cronbach’s α and test–retest reliability), structural validity, convergent/discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity at the domain level. At lower levels of analyses, some facets and negatively worded items functioned better among participants with higher than those with lower education levels. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
KW - Big Five
KW - Chinese
KW - facets
KW - personality assessment
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1177/10731911211008245
DO - 10.1177/10731911211008245
M3 - Article
C2 - 33884926
AN - SCOPUS:85104818540
SN - 1073-1911
VL - 29
SP - 1262
EP - 1284
JO - Assessment
JF - Assessment
IS - 6
ER -