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Escala Reduzida de Descritores dos Cinco Grandes Fatores de Personalidade: Prós e Contras

2015; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-8623.2015.1.16901

1980-8623

Jean Carlos Natividade, Cláudio Simon Hutz,

Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

The aims of this research were to seek evidence of validity and precision of a short scale to assess personality characteristics from the perspective of the Big Five factors. Two sequential studies were conducted. In the first, a 20-item scale was created, and structural adequacy was found. In Study 2, the relations between the short scale and a standardized test to assess personality in the big-five model were tested. Moderate correlations among the short scale factors and their counterparts in the standardized test were noted. Finally, two predictive models for life satisfaction were tested, one with personality factors from the short scale and another with factors from the standardized test. Both models showed the same factors as explanatory. Nevertheless, the short instrument explained only half of the variance explained by the standardized test. We discussed that, even if short scales have suitable psychometric properties, they may increase the odds of inferential errors.