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unusual facts about five factor model



Paul Costa Jr

Alongside this inventory, he and McCrae have argued that personality is stable, especially after age 30, that it is universal (present in the same structure across ethnicities, cultures and times), that the core structure consists of five major domains, and that these in turn reflect a facet-based structure.


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Alternative five model of personality

The factors in the alternative Five model correspond to traits in Eysenck's three factor model, and to four of the five traits in the Five factor model.