GFP in the Cross-Cultural Context CULTURAL STABILITY OF PERSONALITY

The controversy between universality and cultural differences is almost notoriously present in psychology. In almost every important psychological domain, we are facing a lively debate between the adherents of both viewpoints, the first stressing the universality of basic human characteristics and the other emphasizing the differences across cultures in these characteristics. The personality is not an exception, although there is a widespread consensus in the belief that the basic personality features of mankind are crossculturally stable or universal.