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Cross‐Cultural Stability of Second‐Order Factors in the 16 PF
Author(s) -
PHILIP ALISTAIR E.
Publication year - 1972
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.2044-8260.1972.tb00814.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , psychology , test (biology) , stability (learning theory) , social psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , personality , paleontology , machine learning , biology , computer science
An examination of the claims made by Cattell regarding the stability of the second‐order structure of the 16 PF across cultures indicated that these claims were based on limited evidence. The second‐order structure of the 16 PF was obtained for a group of British normals, the data for males, females and total group being factor analysed separately to identify replicable factors. These results were compared with those published by Cattell & Warburton and by Gorsuch & Cattell. There was high congruence across all samples for a factor which could be labelled ‘Anxiety v . Adjustment,’ but there were at least two possible contenders for the label ‘Introversion‐Extraversion’. The hazards consequent upon the identification of similar factors by ‘eye test’ and other possible methodological problems are discussed. It is concluded that Cattell's claims regarding the cross‐cultural stability of factors cannot be substantiated for all factors.