Is “Not Bad” Really “Good”? on the Positive-Negative Personality Structure in China

We find evidence for orthogonality in reporting socially desirable and undesirable traits in China, leading to a failure of the Five Factor Model. We detect a unique 2*3 factor personality structure: desirable traits can be decomposed into Social Desirability, Extraversion and Openness, and undesirable traits into Disorderliness, Neuroticism and Introversion.