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Confirmation of Objective Test Factors and Assessment of Their Relation to Questionnaire Factors: A Factor Analysis of 113 Rating, Questionnaire and Objective Test Measurements of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Ivan H. Scheier  and
Raymond B. Cattell
Ivan H. Scheier
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior The University of Illinois
Raymond B. Cattell
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior The University of Illinois
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Cattell's basic strategy in personality research has been first to establish personality factors for each of three major types of measurement, rating (Life-Record), questionnaire (Self-Rating), and objective tests, then to compare factors from one realm with factors from another (7). A factor in any one realm is established in the first place by being replicated. As Cattell says (4, p. 291): “… a functionally unitary trait or process should nevertheless not be considered established by a pattern in a single factor analytic research, but must reappear consistently and persistently in independently rotated studies.”

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 436 , July 1958 , pp. 608 - 624
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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