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Scales for a British Personality Differential
Author(s) -
WARR PETER B.,
HAYCOCK VALERIE
Publication year - 1970
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.2044-8260.1970.tb00983.x
Subject(s) - judgement , psychology , personality , set (abstract data type) , relevance (law) , social psychology , usable , semantic differential , differential (mechanical device) , sample (material) , factor (programming language) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , chemistry , engineering , chromatography , world wide web , political science , law , programming language , aerospace engineering
A classification of judgement situations is outlined which highlights the need for different investigations to examine different sets of response dimensions. Work is needed in the most general case to develop appropriate scales which can be used in investigations into judgements of people. A study is described which employed orthodox procedures to elicit adjectival qualifiers from a sample of British subjects, and to produce a usable set of personality differential scales. The factor structure of these scales is examined in two separate analyses. In both cases a six‐factor solution appears most appropriate, such that two variants of Evaluation, Potency and Activity are present. The relevance of this finding for cross‐cultural studies of personal judgement is discussed: perhaps the same major components (Evaluation, Potency and Activity) will emerge in all cultures, whilst the secondary variants (as, for example, a smaller evaluative factor) will be dependent upon cultural differences.