Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century

Junpeng Zhu, Wanzhen Chen, Hongying Fan, Bingren Zhang, Kebin Liao, Xiaolin Li, You Xu and Wei Wang

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 2158244015592019

Abstract: The personality-descriptive adjectives used in a famous Chinese novel of the 18th century, A Dream of Red Mansions , which is thought to broadly reflect Chinese culture, might help depict personality structure. Four hundred ninety-three personality-descriptive adjectives from the first 80 chapters of the novel were administered to 732 Chinese university students. After factor analyses, the one- to seven-factor solutions were extracted, and the five-factor one was relatively clearer. The five factors of personality titled Wicked, Intelligent, Amiable, Conscientious, and Frank, were intercorrelated. Men scored higher on Wicked and Conscientious but lower on Amiable compared with women. As a preliminary trial, our study demonstrates that personality-descriptive adjectives in a famous Chinese novel characterize the personality structure.

Keywords: A Dream of Red Mansions; famous Chinese novel; personality structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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