Superfactors P, E And N In A Comprehensive Factor Space

Multivariate Behavioral Research
H J Eysenck

Abstract

Browne and Howarth, in a recent study, selected 400 items from 1726 non-repeated items appearing in previous personality studies, representing twenty hypothetical factors, analysis, followed by rotation, resulted in a multiplicity of factors, many of them similar to those hypothesized. A table is given of the intercorrelations between factors, but no higher order factor analysis was carried out. The writer's system predicts that three such factors should be found in any comprehensive study of this kind, and this paper reports a factor analysis of the correlations among the Browne and Howarth factors. A very clear three-factor picture emerges, with the hypothetical psychcoticism, extraversion and neuroticism factors having very much the predicted loading pattern. It is concluded that primary factor analysis without extraction of higher order factors leaves the analysis incomplete and omits what may be the most important part of the whole procedur. The results are interpreted as supporting the writer's theoretical position.

Citations

Feb 19, 2016·Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology : the Official Journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53·Thomas M Olino
Feb 18, 2015·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Giles Newton-HowesRoger Mulder
Jul 1, 1991·Journal of Mental Health Administration·R H EllisM Foster
Dec 1, 1979·Journal of Personality Assessment·B Bolton

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