Second-order personality factors in the questionnaire realm.

Abstract

(1) A questionnaire-the 16 P.F.[long dash]broadly based on the personality sphere and over 2,000 items, had its factor structure redetermined on a sample of 408 young men and women.... (2) The correlations thus determined ... factored to four second-order, simple-structure factors. (3) These four factors have resemblances, ranging from fair to excellent, to four second-order factors found from life-record (behavior rating) primaries, and two of them have closely similar profiles to the correlations found between questionnaire primaries and two objective personality test factors.... (4) The factors have been contingently named Dynamic Integration-vs.-Anxiety (Objective test factor: U.I. 24); Extraversion-vs.-Introversion (Objective test factor: U.I. 32); Cyclothyme-vs.-Schizothyme Constitution; and Unbroken Success-vs.-Frustration... 34 references.