In the Philippines, we find a fast-accumulating literature of culture and personality research. Local scholars, however, have expressed dissatisfaction with how the central methodological problems have been neglected.

This paper, therefore, will try to summarize the trends and development most evident in Philippine culture-personality research, and then, using the analytical evaluations of some major culture and personality studies done by our social scientists, the paper will also try to indicate that, in paying more attention to method and by reconsidering conceptual orientations, a greater accuracy and validity in culture and personality research may be achieved.