Conceptualizing the Islamic Personality Model

The field of personality or individual psychology has attracted a lot of researchers around the world to devote their efforts in conceptualizing, assessing, and establishing the nomological nets of various personality models and theories. However, some models and theories of personality are limited in their utilization. For example, there are a lot of instances where researchers are unable to derive a clear factor structure when applying the Big Five Personality Traits in their research works due to cultural and values incompatibility. Therefore, this paper attempts to conceptualize and develop a measure of Islamic Personality Model that addresses the issue of incompatibility through the application of both qualitative and quantitative research design. The outcome of this study is to produce a model and measure of Islamic Personality that will benefit the community of researchers in general and Islamic researchers and students, in particular. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.