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Levels of basic personality factors in a psychiatric population
Author(s) -
Berger Audrey,
Wrobel Thomas A.,
Lycaki Helene
Publication year - 1980
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/jclp.6120360202
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , eysenck personality questionnaire , population , factor (programming language) , clinical psychology , sample (material) , dimension (graph theory) , psychiatry , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , demography , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , sociology , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
Diverse sets of factors have been claimed by various investigators to be basic personality variables of the highest factor order. A sample of 400 psychiatric patient records were rated for presence or absence of 14 criteria. The data were factor analyzed, and four factors were extracted. Three of the four factors resemble Eysenck's three‐factor model of personality at the universal or general level. The fourth factor is interpreted to be a behavioral dimension at a lower level. The results are discussed in terms of the population and the type of data utilized.