General dimensions of personality description:: Big five in Czech

The study documents the particular phases of the lexical study in Czech personality descriptors. It presents the structure derived from the factor analysis of the representative list of personality traits. In the first phase, 4.145 adjectives proper for the description of a person or personality description were selected from the Lexicon of literary Czech language. These adjectives were classified by six judges into the categories of German classification system in the next phase. 366 adjectives were chosen by the majority of the judges as representative for the Disposition (personality traits) category. These were submitted to 426 subjects for self-rating. The factor analysis using the principal components analyses with the Varimax rotation was carried out. The five-factor solution produced the factors Extraversion - Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect. The interpretation of these factors in the sense of Big Five were verified on the basis of their correlations with factors gained from the evaluation of a representative list of traits according the Norman model, with factors from the markers of Big Five and with factors derived from the scales of NEO-FFI. The more-factor solutions didn't bring any further dimension that would exceed the framework of Big Five by its content.