Browsing by Author "Schmitt, David P."

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    Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: The effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person's partner
    (American Psychological Association, 2004) Schmitt, David P.; Alcalay S., Lidia; Simonetti, Franco; International Sexuality Description Project
    As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, 16,954 participants from 53 nations were administered an anonymous survey about experiences with romantic attraction. Mate poaching-romantically attracting someone who is already in a relationship-was most common in Southern Europe, South America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe and was relatively infrequent in Africa, South/Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Evolutionary and social-role hypotheses received empirical support. Men were more likely than women to report having made and succumbed to short-term poaching across all regions, but differences between men and women were often smaller in more gender-egalitarian regions. People who try to steal another's mate possess similar personality traits across all regions, as do those who frequently receive and succumb to the poaching attempts by others. The authors conclude that human mate-poaching experiences are universally linked to sex, culture, and the robust influence of personal dispositions.
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    The geographic distribution of big five personality traits - Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2007) Schmitt, David P.; Allik, Juri; McCrae, Robert R.; Benet Martinez, Veronica; Alcalay, Lidia; Ault, Lara; Austers, Ivars; Bennett, Kevin L.; Bianchi, Gabriel; Boholst, Fredrick; Cunen, Mary Ann Borg; Braeckman, Johan; Brainerd, Edwin G.; Gerard, Leo; Caron, Gabrielle; Casullo, Maria Martina; Cunningham, Michael; Daibo, Ikuo; De Backer, Charlene; DeSouza, Eros; Diaz Loving, Rolando; Diniz, Glaucia; Durkin, Kevin; Echegaray, Marcela; Eremsoy, Ekin; Euler, Harald A.; Falzon, Ruth; Fisher, Maryanne L.; Foley, Dolores; Fry, Douglas P.; Fry, Sirpa; Ghayur, M. Arif; Giri, Vjai N.; Golden, Debra L.; Grammer, Karl; Grimaldi, Liria; Halberstadt, Liria; Hague, Shamsul; Herrera, Dora; Hertel, Janine; Hoffmann, Heather; Hooper, Danica; Hradilekova, Zuzana; Hudek Kene evi, Jasna; Jaafar, Jas; Jankauskaite, Margarita; Kabanagu Stahel, Heidi; Kardum, Igor; Khoury, Brigitte; Kwon, Hayrran; Laidra, Kaia; Laireiter, Anton Rupert; Lakerveld, Dustin; Lampert, Ada; Lauri, Maryanne; Lavallee, Marguerite; Lee, Suk Jae; Leung, Luk Chung; Locke, Kenneth D.; Locke, Vance; Luksik, Ivan; Magaisa, Ishmael; Marcinkeviciene, Dalia; Mata, Andre; Mata, Rui; McCarthy, Barry; Mills, Michael E.; Mikhize, Nhlanhla J.; Moreira, Joao; Moreira, Sergio; Moya, Miquel; Munyae, M.; Noller, Patricia; Olimar, Hmoud; Opre, Adrian; Panayiotou, Alexia; Petrovic, Nebojsa; Poels, Karolien; Popper, Miroslav; Poulimenou, Maria; P'yatokh, Volodymyr; Raymond, Michel; Reips, Ulf Dietrich; Reneau, Susan E.; Rivera Aragon, Sofia; Rowatt, Wade C.; Ruch, Willibald; Rus, Velko S.; Safir, Marilyn P.; Salas, Sonia; Sambataro, Fabio; Sandnabba, Kenneth N.; Schulmeyer, Marion K.; Schutz, Astrid; Scrimali, Tulio; Shackelford, Todd K.; Sharan, Mithila B.; Shaver, Phillip R.; Sichona, Francis; Simonetti, Franco; Sineshaw, Tilahun; Sookdew, R.; Spelman, Tom; Spyron, Spyrow; Sumer, H. Canan; Sumer, Nebi; Supekova, Marianna; Szlendak, Tomasz; Taylor, Robin; Timmermans, Bert; Tooke, William; Tsaousis, Ioannis; Tungaranza, F. S. K.; Van Overwalle, Frank; Vandermassen, Griet; Vanhoomissen, Tim; Vanwesenbeeck, Inc; Vasey, Paul L.; Verissimo, Joao; Voracek, Martin; Was, Wendy W. N.; Wang, Ta Wei; Weiss, Peter; Wijaya, Andik; Woertman, Liesbeth; Youn, Gahyun; Zupaneic, Agata
    The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, the BFI was translated from English into 28 languages and administered to 17,837 individuals from 56 nations. The resulting cross-cultural data set was used to address three main questions: Does the factor structure of the English BFI fully replicate across cultures? How valid are the BFI trait profiles of individual nations'? And how are personality traits distributed throughout the world? The five-dimensional structure was robust across major regions of the world. Trait levels were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and national personality profiles. People from the geographic regions of South America and East Asia were significantly different in openness from those inhabiting other world regions. The discussion focuses on limitations of the current data set and important directions for future research.