Original sentence: Technical Report ASD-TR-61-97, Lackland Air Force Base, TX: Personnel Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, 1961), but failed to reach an academic audience until the 1980s.The Big Five model is a comprehensive, empirical, data-driven research finding.The five broad factors were discovered and defined by several independent sets of researchers (Digman, 1990).The initial model was advanced by Ernest Tupes and Raymond Cristal (Tupes, E.These five over-arching domains have been found to contain and subsume most known personality traits and are assumed to represent the basic structure behind all personality traits.These researchers began by studying known personality traits and then factor-analyzing hundreds of measures of these traits (in self-report and questionnaire data, peer ratings, and objective measures from experimental settings) in order to find the underlying factors of personality
Edited sentence: Air Force Personnel Laboratory in the late 1950s; unfortunately, they documented their work only in an obscure technical report (Tupes, E.Over three or four decades of research, these five broad factors were gradually discovered and defined by several independent sets of researchers (Digman, 1990).Situational influences also exist, as even extraverts may occasionally need time away from people.Technical Report ASD-TR-61-97, Lackland Air Force Base, TX: Personnel Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, 1961).The Big Five model is considered to be one of the most comprehensive, empirical, data-driven research findings in the history of personality psychology.The initial model was advanced by Ernest Tupes and Raymond Cristal, based on work done at the U.These five over-arching domains have been found to contain and subsume most known personality traits within their five domains and to represent the basic structure behind all personality traits.These researchers began by studying all known personality traits and then factor-analyzing hundreds of measures of these traits (in self-report and questionnaire data, peer ratings, and objective measures from experimental settings) in order to find the basic, underlying factors of personality.They have brought order to the often-bewildering array of specific lower-level personality concepts that are constantly being proposed by psychologists, which are often found to be overlapping and confusing