On the Cross-Cultural Replicability of the Resilient, Undercontrolled, and Overcontrolled Personality Types

• Published in: Journal of personality Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 340 - 353
• Main Authors: Alessandri, Guido, Vecchione, Michele, Donnellan, Brent M., Eisenberg, Nancy, Caprara, Gian Vittorio, Cieciuch, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2014
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Behavioural psychology; Cluster analysis; Cross cultural studies; Cross-cultural analysis; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Culture; Female; Five factor model; Generalizability; Humans; Italy; Linguistics; Male; Personality; Personality Assessment; Personality Development; Personality psychology; Poland; Reproducibility of Results; Resilience, Psychological; Spain; Students; U.S.A; United States; Young Adult; Poland; Italy; United States; Spain

Personality types reflect typical configurations of personality attributes within individuals. Over the last 20 years, researchers have identified a set of three replicable personality types: resilient (R), undercontrolled (U), and overcontrolled (O) types. In this study, we examined the cross‐cultu...