Таксономия черт личности, основанная на прилагательных русского языка

Сибирский психологический журнал. 2024. № 91. С. 60–80.

Mishkevich A., Shchebetenko S., Kalugin A., Сиротина У. Е., Vitko Y.

The article presents taxonomy of personality traits based on Russian adjectives. As per-

sonality structures derived from adjectives have been widespread worldwide, the identifica-

tion of such a structure for the Russian language would open up possibility of applying global

taxonomies like the Big Five and HEXACO to the Russian-language context. Participants

were 812 Russian residents; after removing unreliable observations, the final sample com-

prised 773 of them (20.6% male), aged from 15 to 75 (M = 25.79, SD = 12.13), with 64 indi-

viduals having not indicated their age and other 64 individuals having not indicated their gender.

Respondents fulfilled a list of 591 adjectives taken from a larger vocabulary (N = 1253), along

with Russian versions of the Big Five Inventory-2 and HEXACO-PI-R aimed at measuring

Five-Factor and HEXACO personality models. The data was analyzed using Principal Com-

ponent Analysis with varimax rotation. The optimal number of factors was determined by 

utilizing the scree test and the “sufficient size” criterion. The data was preliminarily ipsatized,

i.e., centered around the mean answer of the respondent, a widespread practice in the psycho-

lexical research. The “sufficient size” criterion allowed us to settle on a seven-factor structure

as an optimal solution. We analyzed hierarchical solutions ranging from single-factor up to

the seven-factor model. Substantively, several Russian factors (Conscientiousness, Openness,

and Extraversion) fitted their counterparts in the international Big Five and HEXACO. The

remaining factors were somewhat specific and have been labeled Honesty/Humility – Machia-

vellianism/Psychopathy, Anxious Compliant – Calm Assertiveness, Emotional Volatility –

Emotional Resilience, Modesty – Narcissism. They correlate with the factors Honesty/Humility,

Neuroticism, Emotionality, and Agreeableness from the international models. In general, the

present structure of Russian adjective personality descriptors favors the HEXACO model

rather than the Big Five model. The seven-factor solution largely corresponds to HEXACO

with a ramification of the Honesty/Humility factor of the latter in that a Modesty – Narcissism

factor appeared separately from the remaining Honesty/Humility.

Keywords: прилагательные, personality traits, черты личности, adjectives, структура личности, personality structure, Психолексическая гипотеза, русская таксономия, trait taxonomy, psycholexical hypothesis, таксономия личности