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The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits ...
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Objective: This study explores a personality inventory derived from the results of an indigenous lexical study of personality. From the 272 most commonly used personality descriptors in Khoekhoegowab, the most-spoken of extant Khoesan click languages of southern Africa, an 11-factor model of personality-trait structure was identified. Here, the Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory (KPI) was created based on those results. Its psychometric properties, the convergent and divergent validity of its scales, and its incremental validity over Big Five and Six traits for predicting physical and mental health, religious practice and attitudes, and income are reported.Methods: Two to five key terms were selected for each of 10 KPI scales: Temperance, Prosocial Diligence, Gossip, Honesty/Morality, Temper, Implacability, Humility, Vanity, Resiliency vs. Agitation, and Courage vs. Fear. These 38 total items were administered to a large sample of adult speakers of Khoekhoegowab in Namibia (N = 632), together with five ...
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150 Psychologie; Africa; comparative validity; HEXACO; indigenous research; majority world; Namibia; psychological disorders; Questionnaire Big Six
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URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/24019 https://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23374
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The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits
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ǂŪsigu: The Structure of Character Description in Khoekhoegowab
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In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 121, no. 6, pp. 1258-1283 (2021)
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