Table 1.
Cultures Scoring Highest and Lowest on Five National Character Survey (NCS) Factors, with Observer-Rated Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) Factor Mean T-Scores
| Highest NCS Scores | Lowest NCS Scores | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Culture | NEO-PI-R T-Score | Culture | NEO-PI-R T-Score |
| Neuroticism | |||
| Indonesia | 50.0 | The Philippines | 48.3 |
| Nigeria | 47.8 | Canada | 49.5 |
| Turkey | 51.4 | New Zealand | 47.9 |
| Poland | 50.7 | Australia | 48.6 |
| Japan | 50.7 | Burkina Faso | 53.1 |
| Extraversion | |||
| Puerto Rico | 51.6 | Slovenia | 49.5 |
| Australia | 53.8 | Indonesia | 45.4 |
| Spain | 50.4 | French Switzerland | 51.0 |
| New Zealand | 52.4 | Japan | 49.4 |
| Serbia | 49.3 | Estonia | 52.1 |
| Openness | |||
| Russia | 49.7 | P. R. China | 50.1 |
| India | 48.8 | Estonia | 46.8 |
| Nigeria | 49.1 | Chile | 51.8 |
| Kuwait | 47.6 | Turkey | 48.2 |
| Puerto Rico | 49.7 | Japan | 51.2 |
| Agreeableness | |||
| Burkina Faso | 51.3 | Czech Republic | 54.2 |
| India | 51.7 | Lebanon | 46.4 |
| Canada | 49.9 | United States | 49.1 |
| Botswana | 48.0 | Argentina | 50.6 |
| Russia | 50.3 | Hong Kong | 46.9 |
| Conscientiousness | |||
| German Switzerland | 53.5 | Spain | 51.3 |
| Sweden | 45.7a | Turkey | 51.4 |
| Germany | 52.3 | Croatia | 50.3 |
| Burkina Faso | 49.7 | Chile | 52.2 |
| Estonia | 50.0 | Indonesia | 49.6 |
| Mdn | 50.0 | 49.6 | |
a
Observer rating data were unavailable for Sweden; self-report data are shown (12).