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A factor analytic study of the oral character
Author(s) -
Kline Paul,
Storey Ron
Publication year - 1977
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.2044-8260.1977.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , pessimism , optimism , context (archaeology) , personality test , psychoanalytic theory , character (mathematics) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , test (biology) , face (sociological concept) , personality assessment inventory , developmental psychology , social psychology , test validity , psychotherapist , paleontology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , social science , epistemology , sociology , biology
The rationale and construction of two tests of the oral personality, OOQ, oral optimism, and OPQ, oral pessimism, was described in the context of previous research. Item analyses on 457 subjects, followed by a cross‐validating study on 100 subjects produced two face valid personality inventories. These were then factored together with the Dynamic Personality Inventory, the 16 PF test and some other oral scales. The promax rotated factor analysis gave sound support for the validity of the two tests, and hence the existence of two personality syndromes, similar to those described as oral in the psychoanalytic literature.