@ARTICLE{26583223_139109623_2014, author = {Sergei Shchebetenko}, keywords = {, Big Five, personality structuresocial attitudes}, title = {“The Best Man in the World”: Attitudes Toward Personality Traits}, journal = {Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics}, year = {2014}, volume = {11}, number = {3}, pages = {129-148}, url = {https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2014-11-3/139109623.html}, publisher = {}, abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of attitudes toward traits, a bipolar evaluative construct.  It is argued that attitude toward traits is a supplementary characteristic for conventional personality traits.  In this regard, a second dimension of personality traits emerges where each trait can be characterized on another level, a level of attitudes.  The study also demonstrates the psychometric utility of a Russian version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John, Donahue & Kentle, 1991; John, Naumann & Soto, 2008).  The secondary factor structure of the Big Five corresponding to the hypothesis on stability/plasticity (DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002) was obtained.  The BFI was also shown to be employed as a tool to measure attitudes toward traits, and the five-factor structure was replicated as applied to attitudes toward traits.  Different traits demonstrated different sizes of relationships with attitudes toward respective traits.}, annote = {This paper addresses the problem of attitudes toward traits, a bipolar evaluative construct.  It is argued that attitude toward traits is a supplementary characteristic for conventional personality traits.  In this regard, a second dimension of personality traits emerges where each trait can be characterized on another level, a level of attitudes.  The study also demonstrates the psychometric utility of a Russian version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John, Donahue & Kentle, 1991; John, Naumann & Soto, 2008).  The secondary factor structure of the Big Five corresponding to the hypothesis on stability/plasticity (DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002) was obtained.  The BFI was also shown to be employed as a tool to measure attitudes toward traits, and the five-factor structure was replicated as applied to attitudes toward traits.  Different traits demonstrated different sizes of relationships with attitudes toward respective traits.} }