TY - JOUR
AU1 - Digman, J M
AB -  417 0066-4308/9010201-0417$02.00 DIGMAN PROLOGUE William McDougall (1932), writing in the first issue of Character and Personality (which later became the Journal of Personality), discussed at length the special meanings of "character" and "personality" for the two languages in which the new journal was to be published. Toward the end of his essay, he offered an interesting conjecture: "Personality may to advantage be broadly analyzed into five distinguishable but separable factors, namely, intellect, character, temperament, disposition, and temper. ... each of these is highly complex [and] comprises many variables" (p. 15). Although "factor," as McDougall used the term, is closer to "topic" than to contemporary usage of the term, the suggestion was an uncanny anticipation of the results of half a century of work to organize the language of personality into a coherent structure. THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL: A GRAND.UNIFIED THEORY FOR PERSONALITY? The past decade has witnessed a rapid convergence of views regarding the structure of the concepts of personality (i.e. the language of personality). It now appears quite likely that what Norman (1963) offered many years ago as an effort "toward an adequate taxonomy for personality attributes" has ma­ tured into a theoretical structure of surprising generality, with 
TI - Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model
JF - Annual Review of Psychology
DO - 10.1146/annurev.ps.41.020190.002221
DA - 1990-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/personality-structure-emergence-of-the-five-factor-model-idm02Od4Uc
SP - 417
EP - 440
VL - 41
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -