Primary traits of Eysenck's P-E-N system: three- and five-factor solutions.
The Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP), a set of 21 scales measuring primary traits hypothesized to be definers of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Psychoticism factors, was administered to 229 adults together with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire--Revised (H. J. Eysenck & S. B. G. Eysenck, 1991) and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; P. T. Costa & R. R. McCrae, 1992b). Correlations of EPP scales with NEO-PI-R facet scales provided preliminary evidence supporting the convergent and discriminant validity of the EPP scales. However, varimax and targeted validimax factor analyses suggested that some EPP scales were misclassified and that EPP scales could better be understood in terms of the 5-factor model than the intended 3-factor model.
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Social Psychology
- Self-Assessment
- Personality Inventory
- Personality
- Middle Aged
- Male
- Humans
- Female
- Aged
- Adult