Objective‐test Assessment of the Primary Personality Dimensions in Middle Childhood

Factor analysis was applied to the scores of 164 children in the 6–8‐year age range on 111 objective‐test variables. A simple‐structure solution was obtained for 16 factors, and factor scores were correlated with 49 additional variables. The inclusion of marker variables patterned after variables in earlier batteries permits a comparison of present factors with factors found in a number of studies for older children and adults. Every factor appears to correspond to a dimension known from earlier work. Eleven or twelve factors can be identified with considerable confidence. In the remaining factors, the correspondence to the expected loading pattern is somewhat less satisfactory

Developmental psychology · Dimension (graph theory) · Factor (programming language) · Personality · Statistics · Test (biology) · Clinical Psychology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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