Table 12

Congruence of Big Five Factors Compared to United States—Comparisons with Other Countries

		Extraversion	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Neuroticism	Openness	Average
Kenya sample	All	0.64	0.23	0.46	0.63	0.81	0.55
	Cog. above median	0.72	0.27	0.51	0.70	0.76	0.59
	Cog. below median	0.52	0.46	0.07	0.48	0.55	0.42
Colombia sample	All	0.57	0.60	0.03	0.74	0.60	0.51
	Cog. above median	0.69	0.64	0.49	0.76	0.73	0.66
	Cog. below median	0.54	0.56	0.32	0.65	0.48	0.51
Other countries	Spain	0.95	0.93	0.95	0.96	0.86	0.93
	Netherlands	0.94	0.91	0.94	0.94	0.64	0.87
	Germany	0.93	0.60	0.96	0.94	0.39	0.76

Notes: To have comparable results for different countries, the same subset of questions was kept, using Big Five data from other countries, and the factorial analysis uses varimax rotation. The absolute value of correlations between factor loads is used to calculate congruence. To maintain comparability the items are not corrected for acquiescence bias.