Recurrent Personality Factors Based on Trait Ratings

Bibliographic Data

ID19280668
AuthorsErnest C Tupes (United States Air Force), Raymond E Christal (United States Air Force, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume60
Issue2
Pages225-251
Publication date1992-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00973.x
PMID1635043
OpenAlexW2064303302
LanguageEN
Citations received170
References cited10

Intercorrelations among ratings on 35 personality traits, selected as representative of the personality domain, were obtained for eight samples. These samples differed in length of acquaintanceship from 3 days to more than a year; in kind of acquaintanceship from assessment programs in a military training course to a fraternity house situation; in type of subject from airmen with only a high‐school education to male and female undergraduate students to first‐year graduate students; and in type of rater from very naive persons to clinical psychologists and psychiatrists with years of experience in the evaluation of personality. Centroid or multiple‐group factors were extracted and rotated orthogonally to simple structure. For one study, an independent solution was obtained in which analytic rotations were accomplished on an IBM 650 computer using Kaiser's normal varimax criterion. Five fairly strong and recurrent factors emerged from each analysis, labeled as ( a ) Surgency, ( b ) Agreeableness, (c) Dependability, ( d ) Emotional Stability, and ( e ) Culture

Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Cronbach's alpha · Extraversion and introversion · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Psychometrics · Trait · Varimax rotation · Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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