The Big Five Inventory-2 in Korea: Validation and Cross-Cultural Comparisons with the U.S. and Chinese Versions.

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Assessment Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI:10.1177/10731911251357466

Jinsoo Choi, Nanhee Kim, Bo Zhang, Sang Woo Park, Seonghee Cho, Young Woo Sohn, Christopher J Soto, Oliver P John

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Abstract

The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) has enjoyed global popularity due to its good balance of content coverage and brevity and has been officially translated into 12 languages in addition to the original English version. The current study aimed to further enhance the cultural accessibility of the BFI-2 by translating it into the Korean language and comprehensively validating the Korean version in two South Korean samples: working adults and college students. Across the two samples, the Korean BFI-2 demonstrated good reliability (e.g., test-retest reliability, Cronbach's alpha), construct validity (e.g., convergent/discriminant validity), and criterion-related validity with a wide range of outcome measures. Additionally, we compared the psychometric properties of the Korean BFI-2 to those of the original English and Chinese versions to further establish its comparability with other language versions. Overall, our results demonstrate that the Korean BFI-2 is a reliable and valid personality measure that can be confidently used by other researchers. Implications, limitations, and future directions were discussed.

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韩国的五大目录-2：与美国和中国版本的验证和跨文化比较。

《五大目录-2》（Big Five Inventory-2，简称BFI-2）在内容覆盖面和简练之间取得了良好的平衡，在全球广受欢迎，除英文原版外，还被正式翻译成12种语言。本研究旨在进一步提高BFI-2的文化可及性，将其翻译成韩语，并在两个韩国样本中进行全面验证：工作成年人和大学生。在两个样本中，韩国BFI-2表现出良好的信度（例如，测试-重测信度，Cronbach's alpha），结构效度（例如，收敛/判别效度），以及与广泛结果测量相关的标准效度。此外，我们还比较了韩文BFI-2与中英文原版的心理测量特征，以进一步确定其与其他语言版本的可比性。总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，韩国人的BFI-2是一个可靠和有效的人格测量，可以被其他研究者自信地使用。讨论了影响、局限性和未来的发展方向。

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Assessment PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： Assessment publishes articles in the domain of applied clinical assessment. The emphasis of this journal is on publication of information of relevance to the use of assessment measures, including test development, validation, and interpretation practices. The scope of the journal includes research that can inform assessment practices in mental health, forensic, medical, and other applied settings. Papers that focus on the assessment of cognitive and neuropsychological functioning, personality, and psychopathology are invited. Most papers published in Assessment report the results of original empirical research, however integrative review articles and scholarly case studies will also be considered.