As mentioned above, Argentina‘s results were the exception to the rule: they present significant differences for 8 out of the 15 personality traits investigated in this study. Argentina as a tourism destination was viewed as more ̳Daring‘, ̳Spirited‘, ̳Imaginative‘, ̳Intelligent‘, ̳Upper-Class‘ and ̳Tough‘ while it was viewed as more ̳Up-to- Date‘ and ̳Successful‘ as a study abroad destination. It is possible that these results may reflect the fact that Argentina was the country with which the surveyed sample was least familiar. No significant differences were found in the cases of Canada and Australia.
Finally, the fact that most of the scores range between 3 and 4 raises the question of whether the personality traits suggested by Aaker (1997) are applicable in the country image context. The Cronbach‘s Alpha = .9198 indicates that this is a highly reliable scale. The correlation results provide evidence of divergent validity since the alpha is larger than the correlations among scale items. This result was expected since the Aaker scale used in this study has already been tested many times.