The structure of personality traits in adolescents:: the Five-Factor Model and the Alternative Five.

The structure of personality traits in adolescents: the Five-Factor Model and the Alternative Five. In the last years, the Five-Factor Model has been object of an increasing interest as a structural description of personality. Nevertheless. the usefulness of the model in adolescence has not received enough attention. Particularly scarce are the studies examining its most representative questionnaire (the NEO-PI-R) in adolescent samples. Also scarce are the studies on the ZKPQ-III, which assesses the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Alternative Five,. In this study. the NEO-PI-R and the ZKPQ-III were administered to a sample of adolescents aged 15-19, together with measures of positive and negative affect, antisocial behavior and academic failure. These data allow examination of: 1) the structures of the NEO-PIR and the ZKPQ-III in a young population : 2) the relationships between both models and revelant correlates. in order to explore their nomological nets 3) the convergence of the NEO-PI-R and the ZKPQ-III in an integrated model.