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The Validity of the 16 PF in the Discrimination of the Hysteroid and Obsessoid Personality
Author(s) -
FORBES A. R.
Publication year - 1969
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.2044-8260.1969.tb00600.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , extraversion and introversion , personality psychology , personality test , test (biology) , clinical psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , test validity , paleontology , biology
This paper reports a study in which certain hypotheses about the relation of Sixteen Personality Factor Test (16 PF) scores to hysteroidness or obsessoidness of personality, as measured by the Hysteroid‐Obsessoid Questionnaire (HOQ) in a group of patients in the acute phase of functional psychiatric illness, were tested. Only five of these eight hypotheses were supported by the data, the scales on the 16 PF which did differentiate between the criterion groups being the five which contribute to the second‐order factor of extraversion. The expected differentiation of the criterion groups on 16 PF factors G, I and O did not appear. It is argued from these results that the 16 PF is not a valid test for identifying obsessoid and hysteroid personalities in the clinical setting, since the scales which did differentiate the groups provided only a partial description of their distinguishing personality characteristics.