5 (OR 3) ROBUST QUESTIONNAIRE SCALE FACTORS OF PERSONALITY WITHOUT CULTURE

Thirty-three personality scales, which were good markers for personality factors in a previous study, were analyzed in a new study involving 525 subjects in four samples: men and women in Fall and Spring terms. Two techniques for the computation of factors were employed: (a) traditional factor analysis via the SPSSX Factor procedure, and (b) Simultaneous Component Analyses (SCAs), via a program developed by Kiers (SCA: a program for simultaneous component analysis, Groningen: IEC ProGamma, 1990). The latter approach showed that sets of common factors defined over all four groups had virtually the same explanatory power as separate components computed for each group separately, and results from traditional factor analyses of the separate groups showed that the loadings of corresponding factors were highly related. A robust five-factor solution, very similar in males and females, included the following factors: Sociability, Neuroticism-Anxiety, Aggression-Hostility (vs Social Desirability), Impulsive-Unsocialized-Sensation Seeking, and Activity. © 1991.