Personality profiles of cultures: Aggregate personality traits
Personality profiles of cultures: Aggregate personality traits using the Big 5 (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) personality traits
Scores assessing the level of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism in 51 countries. This dataset is a tibble containing 51 observations across 8 variables:
culture: name of the inhabitants of each country.
country_name: character string indicating the name of the country.
country_code: character string indicating the country (ISO3 code).
openness: Numeric. Score of the country on the dimension “openness”, defined as “Openness involves six facets, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity.” (source)
conscientiousness: Numeric. Score of the country on the dimension “conscientiousness”, defined as “Conscientiousness implies a desire to do a task well, and to take obligations to others seriously.” (source)
extraversion: Numeric. Score of the country on the dimensions “extraversion”, defined as “Extraversion tends to be manifested in outgoing, talkative, energetic behavior, whereas introversion is manifested in more reserved and solitary behavior.” (source)
agreeableness: Numeric. Score of the country on the dimensions “agreeableness”, defined as “a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, and considerate. In contemporary personality psychology, agreeableness is one of the five major dimensions of personality structure, reflecting individual differences in cooperation and social harmony.” (source)
neuroticism: Numeric. Score of the country on the dimensions “neuroticism”, defined as a tendency to “experience such feelings as anxiety, worry, fear, anger, frustration, envy, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood, and loneliness. People who are neurotic respond worse to stressors and are more likely to interpret ordinary situations as threatening and minor frustrations as hopelessly difficult. They are often self-conscious and shy, and they may have trouble controlling urges and delaying gratification.” (source)
Reference: McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., and 79 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project (2005). Personality profiles of cultures: Aggregate personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 407–425.