Should Liberalism be a Part of Openness to Experience as its Facet?

Tucaković, Lana and Nedeljković, Boban (2020) Should Liberalism be a Part of Openness to Experience as its Facet? In: XXVI Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology. Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, pp. 43-46. ISBN 978-86-6427-165-3

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Abstract

Both the HEXACO model and the Big Five model of personality suggest that the trait Openness to experience is a complex construct, whereby in some conceptualizations of the Big Five model, such as the IPIP-Big Five, the construct comprises the facet Liberalism. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between Liberalism as a facet from IPIP Big Five Model Openness and other facets of Openness from two personality models – Big Five and HEXACO. Items related to Openness from the IPIP Big-Five factor markers (which consists of two subdomains – Pure Openness and Pure Intellect) and HEXACO-PI-R were administered to the sample of 540 participants. Results show that Liberalism has the lowest correlations with facets from Pure Openness and also showed the lowest correlation with all the facets from HEXACO Openness. Liberalism also shows low correlations with facets from its Pure Intellect subdomain: Adventurousness and Intellect. While other facets from IPIP-Big Five Openness show moderate to high correlations with HEXACO Openness domain, Liberalism correlates weakly. Considering the weak correlations between Liberalism and the other Openness facets it can be concluded that this facet does not fit well into Openness domain, i.e., that Liberalism is not a proper reflection of Openness trait.

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