This dataset contains data used in the following study:
Feng, S., Melia, N., Yap, H. S., Abraham, A., Chan, Y. N., Hung, D., Suckling, J., Teo, C. L., Robbins, T., Sahakian, B., Kourtzi, Z., Leong, V., Chen, A., Hendriks, H., Christopoulos, G., & the CLIC Phase 1 Consortium. (2026). Over Fifteen Years of Confusion: How the Big Five Inventory Mismeasures Openness. European Journal of Personality, 08902070261450714. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070261450714
The dataset consists of 10 data files:
Dataset1.csv,
Dataset2.csv,
Dataset3.csv,
Dataset4.csv,
Dataset5_WVS(Singapore).csv,
Dataset6_WVS(South_Africa).csv,
Dataset7_Tobin_Guadagno_2022.csv,
Dataset8_Dufault_2023.csv,
Dataset9_ISSP(New_Zealand).csv, and
Dataset_ISSP(Germany).csv.
Each data file contains participants' responses to the items in the 10-item Big Five personality inventory (BFI-10; Rammstedt & John, 2007) or the 44-item version (BFI-44; John et al., 1991). They were used to investigate a problematic openness item in the BFI: "I see myself as someone who has few artistic interests".
Datasets 1 to 4 were collected by our research team at NTU.
Datasets 5 and 6 are part of the WVS Wave 6 data (Inglehart et al., 2014), and were downloaded from https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp.
Dataset 7 was downloaded from https://osf.io/dwcaz/ (Tobin & Guadagno, 2022).
Dataset 8 was downloaded from https://osf.io/cukrx/ (Dufault et al., 2023), DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/CUKRX
Dataset 9 and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Germany dataset were downloaded from https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA4350. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11648
All datasets have gone through data cleaning.
(2025-05-26)