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Introduction : from TEM to TEA : the making of a new approach / Tatsuya Sato -- Imagining the past and remembering the future : how the unreal defines the real / Tania Zittoun and Jaan Valsiner -- The trajectory equifinality model (TEM) as a general tool for understanding human life course within irreversible time / Tatsuya Sato and Hitomi Tanimura -- Mapping trajectories of becoming a psychologist / Katrin Kullasepp -- How can the diversity of human lives be expressed using TEM? : depicting the experiences and choices of infertile women unable to conceive after infertility treatment / Yuko Yasuda -- Exploring the transgenerational transmission of trauma in a cultural life course perspective / Nina Dalgaard and Pernille Hviid -- Meaning construction and its transformation in narratives about music with a personal meaning : music therapy in group counseling for juvenile delinquents / Kakuko Matsumoto -- TEM and dialogical self theory : how to understand a marriage problem? / Hubert Hermans -- Compositionwork and tem : studying the self in irreversible time / Agnieszka Konopka and Wim van Beers -- A dialogical self : trajectory equifinality model for higher education persistence/abandoning of study / Mauricio Cortés -- Contribution of TEM to lifespan development psychology from life story / Masakuni Tagaki -- From the as if to the as is : the emergence of a research project / Eugenia Gouvedari -- TEM model and Brazilian research on developmental transitions / Ana Cecília Bastos -- Extending the trajectory equifinality model's conceptual and methodological toolkit to account for continuous development / Eric Jensen and Brady Wagoner

The purpose of this study was to adapt a Japanese version of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2-J) to examine its factor structure, reliability, validity, and measurement invariance. The BFI-2-J assesses five domains and 15 facets of the Big Five personality traits. We analyzed two datasets: 487 Japanese undergraduates and 500 Japanese adults. The results of the principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the domain-facet structure of the BFI-2-J was similar to that of other language versions. The reliability of the BFI-2-J is sufficient. The correlation coefficients between the BFI-2-J and the other Big Five and self-esteem measures supported convergent and discriminant validity. Moreover, we confirmed measurement invariance across age and sex groups in domain-level and facet-level models. The results suggest that the BFI-2-J is a good instrument for measuring the Big Five personality traits and their facets in Japan. The BFI-2-J is expected to be useful in Japanese personality research and international comparative research.