The present invention relates to a positive
electrode active material in which the particle size of primary particles is uniform, so that the amount of
fine powder is small, and the particles are rarely crushed in a fine crushing step and a rolling step for manufacturing a
lithium secondary battery. The present invention relates to a positive
electrode active material, a method for preparing the same, and a positive
electrode and a
lithium secondary battery comprising the same, in which the positive electrode active material comprises a
lithium nickel cobalt manganese-based
oxide having a
nickel content of 50 mol% or more in all transition metals and being in the form of a single particle consisting of 10 or less primary particles, and a polydispersity index (PDI) value according to Equation 1 described in the specification is 1.0 to 1.8.