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Use of the Big Five Inventory in a Colombian Sample
Uso del Inventario de los Cinco Grandes en una muestra colombiana;
Uso do Inventário dos Cinco Grandes em uma amostra colombiana
Autor
Salgado, Elvira Isabel
Vargas-Trujillo, Elvia
Schmutzler, Jana
Wills-Herrera, Eduardo
Institución
Resumen
The objective of the present study was to examine the use of the Big Five Inventory in its Spanish version relying on a convenience sample of 323 Colombian university students. We replicated the structure of the Big Five with a congruence factor above .90. Considering the average age of our sample, we realized our analysis applying the ipsatization procedure as suggested by Soto, John, Gosling, and Potter to control for the effect of acquiescence. Our analysis confirmed sex differences similar to those reported.