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Five new personality scales: Their location in the factor space of personality measures
Author(s) -
Kline Paul,
Auld Frank,
Cooper Colin
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198705)43:3<328::aid-jclp2270430305>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - psychology , psychoticism , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , machiavellianism , 16pf questionnaire , personality test , alternative five model of personality , personality assessment inventory , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , psychometrics , extraversion and introversion , clinical psychology , social psychology , test validity , big five personality traits and culture
Five scales from a picture‐preference test (PPT; Auld, 1981) and a sixth, provisional scale from this test, along with some of the best established factorial tests of personality and ability, were administered to 182 university students. The marker tests included the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Hakstian‐Cattel Comprehensive Ability Battery, and measures of authoritarian personality traits, obsessionality, and Machiavellianism. In order to determine the factorial composition of the five PPT scales, we computed the correlations among the 53 variables, extracted the 12 significant factors by the principal axes method, and did a direct oblimin rotation. It was shown that three of the PPT scales loaded on a single factor, which was identified as P, Eysenck's “psychoticism.” We concluded that the three PPT scales may prove useful as a non‐questionnaire approach to measurement of P.