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Confirmation and Clarification of Primary Personality Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Raymond B. Cattell
Raymond B. Cattell*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Abstract

In connection with a study bridging rating, questionnaire, and objective test factors, confirmation was sought with respect to the twelve personality factors previously found for young adult men. Variables were chosen to clarify and discriminate the nature of related factors. Ratings of and by 373 students were obtained, and the present study describes the separate factorization for the 133 men among them. Factorization yielded eleven factors, of which, on “blind” rotation for simple structure, 9 or 10 proved to be identical with those of the previous study. A new factor M is described.

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Psychometrika , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1947 , pp. 197 - 220
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Copyright © 1947 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

There have, of course, been numerous studies bridging in terms of simple BR, Q, and T variables, but not in terms of matching definite unitary traits.

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These were students in a state university, taking a rather large section of the population, swollen still further by the first returning veterans; so that the study is, fortunately, not open to the usual criticism of the use of student subjects, namely that they represent an extremely small and biased sample of the general population. Certainly. in spite of the comments of teachers, these subjects are somewhat selected in intelligence and probably to a lesser extent in character; but not enough to do more than alter the relative variance due to different factors.

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