scholarly journals An inter-battery factor analysis of the comrey personality scales and the 16 personality factor questionnaire

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon P. De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors

The scores of 700 Afrikaans-speaking university students on the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire were subjected to an inter-battery factor analysis. This technique uses only the correlations between two sets of variables and reveals only the factors that they have in common. Three of the Big Five personality factors were revealed, namely Extroversion, Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. However, the Conscientiousness factor contained a relatively strong unsocialised component and in this regard it is similar to Eysencks Psychoticism factor. The results support the construct validity of the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. Implications for personality questionnaire design and validation are discussed. OpsommingDie tellings van 700 Afrikaanssprekende universiteitstudente vir die Comrey Persoonlikheidskale en die 16 Per- soonlikheidsfaktorvraelys is aan 'n interbattery-faktorontleding onderwerp. Hierdie tegniek gebruik slegs die korrelasies tussen twee stelle veranderlikes en ontbloot slegs faktore wat die twee stelle veranderlikes gemeen het. Drie van die faktore van die vyfFaktormodel is blootgele, naamlik Ekstroversie, Neurotisisme en Konsensieusheid. Die Konsensieusheidsfaktor het ook n relatief sterk ongesosialiseerdheidskomponent ingesluit en in hierdie sin is dit soortgelyk aan Eysenck se Psigotisisme faktor. Die resultate ondersteun die konstrukgeldigheid van die Comrey Persoonlikheidskale en die 16 Persoonlikheidsfaktorvraelys. Implikasies vir die ontwerp en validering van persoonlikheidstoetse word bespreek.

Relationships between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Measure of Psychological Type and Neo Measure of Big Five Personality Factors in Polish University Students: A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Comparison

2008 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 588-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome J. Tobacyk ◽  
Mary M. Livingston ◽  
James E. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Big Five ◽  
English Language ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors

English-language versions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Form G) measure of psychological type and the NEO-FFI measure of the Big Five personality factors were completed by 57 Polish university students fluent in the English language. The pattern of correlations between MBTI and NEO-FFI scales for the Polish sample was compared to the pattern of correlations for measures of these same constructs reported for Americans. Four of the five significant relationships between MBTI and NEO-FFI scales reported in the American sample were also recorded in the Polish sample: MBTI Extraversion-Introversion with NEO Extraversion, MBTI Sensing-Intuition and MBTI Judging-Perceiving with NEO-Openness, and MBTI Judging-Perceiving with NEO Conscientiousness. Pending replication with a larger, more representative sample, this preliminary study supports the validity of psychological type in Polish society.

Influence of personality on music-genre exclusivity

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562095361
Author(s):  
Jotthi Bansal ◽  
Maya B Flannery ◽  
Matthew H Woolhouse
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Music Recommendation ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Different Levels

Studies reveal consistent relationships between personality and preferred musical genre. This article explores these relationships using a novel methodology: genre dispersion among people’s mobile-phone music collections. By analyzing the download behavior of genre-based user subgroups, we investigated the following questions: (1) do genre-based subgroups exhibit different levels of genre exclusivity; and (2) does genre exclusivity relate to Big Five personality factors? We hypothesized that genre-based subgroups would vary in genre exclusivity, and that their degree of exclusivity would be associated with the personality factor of openness (if people have open personalities, they should be open to different musical styles). Consistent with our hypothesis, results showed that greater genre inclusivity, that is, many genres in people’s music collections, positively correlated with openness and (unexpectedly) agreeableness, suggesting that individuals with high openness and agreeableness have wider musical tastes than those with low openness and agreeableness. By demonstrating an association between personality and patterns of music consumption, this research serves to corroborate previous work linking genre preference and personality. The practical implications of this research may be useful in the implementation of music-recommendation systems.

Psychometric Properties and Correlates of the Lester-Bean Attribution of Causes to Suicide Scale (German Form)

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Mariella Loibl ◽  
Martin Voracek
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors

Psychometric properties and correlates of the German form of Lester and Bean's 1992 Attribution of Causes to Suicide Scale, of 18 items tapping into lay theories of suicide (intrapsychic problems, interpersonal conflicts, and societal forces as causes), were investigated in a sample of the general population in Austria ( n = 156). The three attributional dimensions presented moderate internal consistencies and the 18 items appeared to be factorially orderly, as indicated by exploratory factor analysis. Previous results were replicated, with positive interrelations among all three dimensions, but these were largely confined to men. Societal causes of suicide were significantly less frequently endorsed than intrapsychic or interpersonal causes. Respondents' sex, intelligence, and knowledge about suicide were unrelated, and scores on the Big Five personality factors and social desirability were largely unrelated to the three dimensions. Endorsing intrapsychic causes to suicide was correlated with advanced age, religiosity, and conservative political orientation, and the three dimensions entertained meaningful associations with locus of control (internality, social externality, and fatalistic externality). All observed demographic and attitudinal correlates were, however, of modest magnitude. Implications of the findings and directions for further inquiry are discussed.

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