TY - JOUR
T1 - Further contribution to the conceptual validity of the unified biosocial model of personality
T2 - US and Yugoslav data
AU - Švrakić, Dragan M.
AU - Przybeck, Thomas R.
AU - Cloninger, C. Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Depanment of Psychiatry, Washington University Medical School, St Louis, MO. Supported in part by Grant No. MH31302 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Grants No. AA07982 and AA08028 from the National Institute of Alcoholism, and a grant from the MacArthur Foundation Network on Effects of Personali@ and Mood on Learning. Address reprint requests to Dragan M. SvrakiC, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Washington Universit) Medical School, 4940 Audubon Ave, St Louis, MO 631 IO. Copyright 0 1991 by W.B. Saunders Company OOlO-44OXi9113203-0004$03.00l0
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - In this study, the conceptual validity of the unified model of personality, postulated by Cloninger (1987) and measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), is tested in diverse Yugoslav and American societies. The issue of cross-cultural sensitivity of personality studies and the methodology that minimizes distortions and alternative explanations are discussed in detail. Similar personality structures were observed in the Yugoslav and US samples. Differences in novelty seeking (NS, attributed to age differences between the two samples) and harm avoidance (HA, possibly due to long-standing socioeconomic instability in Yugoslavia) are consistent with the unified biosocial theory of personality. Also, the TPQ was found to be psychometrically sound and valid for further research, although some revision in the reward dependence (RD) scale is warranted.
AB - In this study, the conceptual validity of the unified model of personality, postulated by Cloninger (1987) and measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), is tested in diverse Yugoslav and American societies. The issue of cross-cultural sensitivity of personality studies and the methodology that minimizes distortions and alternative explanations are discussed in detail. Similar personality structures were observed in the Yugoslav and US samples. Differences in novelty seeking (NS, attributed to age differences between the two samples) and harm avoidance (HA, possibly due to long-standing socioeconomic instability in Yugoslavia) are consistent with the unified biosocial theory of personality. Also, the TPQ was found to be psychometrically sound and valid for further research, although some revision in the reward dependence (RD) scale is warranted.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-440X(91)90040-J
DO - 10.1016/0010-440X(91)90040-J
M3 - Article
C2 - 1884600
AN - SCOPUS:0025798951
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 32
SP - 195
EP - 209
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -