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Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model

Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Psychology Annual Reviews

Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model

Digman, J M
Annual Review of Psychology , Volume 41 (1) – Feb 1, 1990
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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

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