FFM essay studies

Costa & McCrae (1992) - developed the NEO personality inventory

five broad traits and six lower order facets each, HOWEVER WEIRD BIAS

McCrae & Terracciano (2005)

FFM structure replicated across 50 cultures, HOWEVER RELIES ON SELF REPORT WITH LANGUAGE ISSUES

Gurven et al (2013)

WEAK evidence for standard Big 5 in Tsimane population

Costa & McCrae (1980)

10 year longitudinal study found extraversion strongly positively predicted, and neuroticism negatively predicted wellbeing, HOWEVER SELF REPORT AND CORRELATIONAL

Steel, Schmidt & Shultz (2008)

large meta analysis found extraversion (.49) and conscientiousness (.25) positively correlated and neuroticism (-.46) negatively correlated with SWB, HOWEVER SELF REPORT

Anglim et al (2020)

examined how big 5 traits relate to Ryff’s psychological wellbeing dimensions and found FFM predicts SWB, HOWEVER CROSS SECTIONAL AND CORRELATIONAL

Plomin et al (1994)

in MZ twins, heritability estimates for extraversion were 51% and neuroticism were 46%, HOWEVER EQUAL ENVIRONMENT ASSUMPTION

Canli et al (2002)

fMRI, extraverts showed greater amygdala activation to happy faces, HOWEVER SMALL SAMPLES FROM FMRI