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Boele De Raad is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and specializes in the field of psychology, with a focus on personality traits and related areas. Their work spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, and linguistics and language.

The scientist's research topics primarily cover:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Language and Culture

Boele De Raad has contributed to several scholarly publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Big Five Personality Trait Factors, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
  • The structure of Albanian personality descriptive trait-adjectives: A psycho-lexically based taxonomy, 2020, International Journal of Personality Psychology
  • A psychometric evaluation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI) in an Eastern Africa population, 2023, Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
  • Personality in Swahili culture: A psycho-lexical approach to trait structure in a language deprived of typical trait-descriptive adjectives, 2024, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Swahili personality-trait vocabulary: A psycho-lexical study using dictionary and day-to-day conversations by indigenous speakers, 2024, International Journal of Personality Psychology

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Boele De Raad on multiple occasions, including:

  • Dick P. H. Barelds
  • Philip J. Corr
  • Harrun H. Garrashi
  • Petar Čolović
  • Boris Mlačić

Boele De Raad's works have been published repeatedly in specific venues, including:

  • International Journal of Personality Psychology
  • Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality

In addition to journal articles, Boele De Raad authored a book published by Cambridge University Press entitled The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2020), which has received citations in the field.

Best Publications

  • A six-factor structure of personality-descriptive adjectives: solutions from psycholexical studies in seven languages.

    Michael C. Ashton;Kibeom Lee;Marco Perugini;Piotr Szarota

  • Integration of the big five and circumplex approaches to trait structure.

    Willem K. B. Hofstee;Boele de Raad;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Personality in learning and education: a review

    Boele De Raad;Henri C. Schouwenburg

  • The big five personality factors : the psycholexical approach to personality

    Boele De Raad

  • Big five factor assessment: Introduction.

    Boele de Raad;Marco Perugini

  • The Five-Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI)

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  • Only three factors of personality description are fully replicable across languages: a comparison of 14 trait taxonomies.

    Boele De Raad;Dick P. H. Barelds;Eveline Levert;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Lingua Franca of Personality Taxonomies and Structures Based on the Psycholexical Approach

    Boele De Raad;Marco Perugini;Martina Hrebícková;Piotr Szarota

  • Taxonomy and structure of Hungarian personality traits

    Zsófia Szirmák;Boele De Raad

  • Towards a refined structure of personality traits

    Boele De Raad;A. A. Jolijn Hendriks;Willem K. B. Hofstee

  • The substantive nature of psycholexical personality factors: a comparison across languages.

    Dean Peabody;Boele De Raad

  • The replicability of the Big Five personality dimensions in three word‐classes of the Dutch language

    Boele De Raad

  • A comparison of big-five structures of personality traits in Dutch, English, and German

    Willem K. B. Hofstee;Henk A. L. Kiers;Boele De Raad;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • The trait-coverage of emotional intelligence

    Boele De Raad

  • The substantive nature of psycholexical personality factors: A comparison across languages.

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  • A new taxonomy of Dutch personality traits based on a comprehensive and unrestricted list of descriptors

    Boele De Raad;Dick P. H. Barelds

  • Taxonomies of situations from a trait psychological perspective: A review

    Maaike A. Ten Berge;Boele De Raad

  • Towards a Pan-cultural Personality Structure: Input from 11 Psycholexical Studies

    Boele De Raad;Dick P. H. Barelds;Marieke E. Timmerman;Kim De Roover

  • Five big, Big Five issues: Rationale, content, structure, status, and crosscultural assessment.

    Boele De Raad

  • Advances in personality psychology.

    Sarah E. Hampson;Andrzej Eliasz;Boele De Raad

  • Cross‐culturally recurrent personality factors: analyses of three factors

    Boele De Raad;Dean Peabody

  • In pursuit of a cross-lingual reference structure of personality traits: Comparisons among five languages

    Boele De Raad;Marco Perugini;Zsófia Szirmák

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Fritz Ostendorf
Fritz Ostendorf Bielefeld University
A. Timothy Church
A. Timothy Church Washington State University
Lewis R. Goldberg
Lewis R. Goldberg Oregon Research Institute
Marcia S. Katigbak
Marcia S. Katigbak Washington State University
Gerard Saucier
Gerard Saucier University of Oregon
Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton Brock University
Kibeom Lee
Kibeom Lee University of Calgary
Reinout E. de Vries
Reinout E. de Vries Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michelle Yik
Michelle Yik Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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