ABSTRACT

Considering that the individual differences are explained by different words from one culture to another, Goldberg (1982) rightly remarked that the individual differences that are reflected in the daily transactions of persons eventually become encoded into their language. As far as assessment of personality in south Asia is concerned, usually the tools developed by western researchers are adopted, which proves counterproductive as no attention is paid to pragmatics and the related aspects of the language. When it comes to the state of J&K, the scenario is more pathetic as most of the people have not full command over even their native language. In this backdrop the present study was carried with the objective of development of a lexically & psychometrically based model of Personality. After application of proper methodological procedures, the results obtained are satisfactory in terms of the efficacy of the lexical approach for the assessment of various attributes of an individual. It is hoped that the study will serve as a small beginning for the researchers of Asia to further refine the concept of personality indigenously.