<P> Cross-cultural psychology as a discipline examines the way that human behavior is different and / or similar across different cultures . One important and widely studied area in this subfield of psychology is personality, particularly the study of Big Five . The Big Five personality traits are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism . The Big Five model of personality (also known as the Five Factor Model) has become the most extensively studied model of personality and has broad support, starting in the United States and later in many different cultures . However, there is also some evidence which suggests that the Big Five traits may not be sufficient to completely explain personality in other cultures . </P> <P> Research suggests that the same five - factor structure of personality can be found in multiple other countries, based on a translated version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory . Over the past decade, studies on the validity of the Five - Factor Model using translations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory have found broad support across many different studies and in many different countries; in earlier studies, Extraversion and Neuroticism were reported as stable personality scales across several cultures, including German, Dutch, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino samples . </P>

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