标题：The national psychological/personality profile of Romanians. An in depht analysis of the regional national psychological/personality profile of Romanians. Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology
摘要：In this article we perform an in depth analysis of the national psychological/personality profile ofRomanians. Following recent developments in the field (see Rentfrow et al., 2013; 2015), we studythe regional national psychological/personality profile of Romanians, based on the Big Five model(i.e., NEO PI/R). Using a representative sample (N1 = 1000), we performed a cluster analysis andidentified two bipolar personality profiles in the population: cluster 1, called “Factor X-”,characterized by high neuroticism and low levels of extraversion, openness, agreeableness, andconscientiousness, and cluster 2, called “Factor X+”, characterized by the opposite configuration inpersonality traits, low neuroticism and high levels of extraversion, openness, agreeableness, andconscientiousness. The same two cluster pattern/solution emerged in other samples (N = 2200),with other Big Five-based instruments, and by using various methods of data (e.g., direct vs.reversed item score, controlling for item desirability) and cluster (i.e., with and without “runningmeans”) analyses. These two profiles are quite evenly distributed in the overall population, but alsoacross all geographical regions. Moreover, comparing the distribution of the five personality traits,we found just few small differences between the eight geographical divisions that we used for ouranalysis. These results suggest that the regional national psychological/personality profile ofRomania is quite homogenous. Directions for harnessing the potential of both personality profilesare presented to the reader. Other implications based on the bipolar and fractal structure of thepersonality profile are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective
