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Constancy and Difference in Personality Structure and Mean Profile, in the Questionnaire Medium, from Applying the 16 P.F. Test in America and Japan
Author(s) -
TSUJIOKA BIEN,
CATTELL RAYMOND B.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00478.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , extraversion and introversion , big five personality traits , test (biology) , universality (dynamical systems) , social psychology , significant difference , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , statistics , mathematics , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
A factor analysis of 32 variables constituted by scales in Forms A and B of the 16 P.F. on 117 American and 300 Japanese male undergraduates yielded highly congruent structures. Differences were no greater than for two American samples, suggesting that these personality source traits have high universality. On factor levels, however, very significant differences were found, explicable partly in terms of the Japanese being more introvert