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Some Factors of Temperament: A Re-Examination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

H. A. Reyburn  and
J. G. Taylor
H. A. Reyburn
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
J. G. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
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Abstract

By application of the technique presented earlier, the factors found by the Guilfords in two studies of personality factors are reanalyzed. The rotation technique for the isolation of meaningful factors relates the factors of the two studies to each other through three common items, and to other factors and traits appearing in the literature of personality measurement. For each of four of the factors resulting from the analysis of the first battery there is close agreement with its counterpart from the analysis of the second battery with respect to loadings of the three common items. These factors are interpreted as perseverance, surgency, flexibility, and tension. Other factors appearing in only one or the other of the batteries are tentatively identified.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1943 , pp. 91 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © 1943 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

Psychometrika, 1943, 8, 53-64.

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(a) J. P. Guilford and R. B. Guilford. Personality factors, D, R, T, and A. J. abnor, soc. Psychol., 1939. 34, 21-36.

(b) J. P. Guilford and R. B. Guilford. Personality factors N and GD. J. abnor, soc. Psychol., 1939, 34, 239-248.

References

* R. B. Cattell. A Guide to Mental Testing. Chapter 5; and elsewhere.

** H. A. Reyburn and J. G. Taylor. Some factors of personality. A further analysis of some of Webb’s data. Brit. J. Psychol, 1939, 30, 151-165.

† H. A. Reyburn and J. G. Taylor. Factors in introversion and extraversion. Brit. J. Psychol., 1941, 31, 335-340.

* No. 29, it may be remarked, turns out not to justify the expectation. Conscientiousness and over-conscientiousness prove to be rather different qualities.

** H. A. geyburn and J. G. Taylor. Factors in introversion and extraversion. Brit. J. Psychol., 1941, 31, 335-340.