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TEACHERS' PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION OF SIX‐YEAR‐OLDS: A CHECK ON STRUCTURE
Author(s) -
CATTELL RAYMOND B.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1963.tb00585.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , personality theory , big five personality traits , test (biology) , dominance (genetics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , gene , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
S ummary . Since factor analytic evidence on personality structure in young children is still uncommon and incomplete, an independent, checking analysis is presented on the excellent data gathered by Digman, on 102 seven and eight year‐olds, by use of behavior ratings on a standard set of thirty‐nine bipolar ‘marker’ traits. The general agreement with Digman's findings is good, seven of his eleven factors closely matching seven of the twelve here, in ‘blind’ rotations. However, where there are differences, the technical points by which differences in factor analyses may be evaluated are illustrated. In particular, the differences of interpretation are evaluated, for the present writer's factors A, cyclothymia; C, ego strength; D, excitability; E, dominance; and so on to O, guilt proneness, are more exactly confirmed here. This better confirmation coincides with ( a ) a higher hyperplane count (mean 70 per cent.), and ( b ) a higher statistical significance of simple structure by the Bargmann test. However, the differences of the independent analyses are small compared with the agreements. The study has relevance also to the cross‐cultural constancy of personality factors, in that the subjects were roughly half Japanese, half Caucasian, in Hawaii.