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Dimensions of Personality and Meaning in Self‐Ratings of Personality
Author(s) -
GRAY JOHN E.
Publication year - 1973
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.2044-8260.1973.tb00074.x
Subject(s) - psychology , varimax rotation , extraversion and introversion , semantic differential , neuroticism , personality , eysenck personality questionnaire , meaning (existential) , attribution , scale (ratio) , social psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , psychometrics , psychotherapist , physics , cronbach's alpha , quantum mechanics
It has been suggested that the orthogonal dimensions of emotional adjustment and extraversion found by Eysenck and others in personality data are topical variants of the more general dimensions of evaluation, potency and activity found in the attribution of meaning to objects by Osgood. Emotional adjustment is identified with the evaluation dimension and extraversion with the activity and potency dimensions. Subjects were given the EPI and a self‐concept Semantic Differential consisting of scales measuring evaluation, potency and activity and also scales measuring emotional adjustment and aspects of extraversion. A principal components analysis with Varimax rotation revealed four factors. Although EPI neuroticism did not load highly on the evaluative factor, the Semantic Differential scale of emotional adjustment did. The EPI and Semantic Differential extraversion scales loaded on an activity factor.