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Replicable Item-Cluster Subcomponents in the NEO Five-Factor Inventory
Abstract
The popular NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) has a short form--the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)--that taps the five broad factors with fidelity and reliability. However, conventional scoring of this short form does not provide scores on more specific aspects of the broad-bandwidth factors. In this study, 13 item clusters were found to replicate across halves of a sample of self-descriptions by adults (N = 732). Thirteen factor-analytically derived scales were developed for the item clusters. The scales demonstrated reliability and factor structure comparable to that of the 30 facet scales of the NEO-PI-R. Correlation and multiple regression analyses showed that the content coverage of the 13 scales has high overlap with that of the NEO-PI-R facet scales, but that representation of some facet scales is more moderate. Archival and existing data involving the NEO-FFI can be easily rescored for these 13 subcomponents, increasing the researcher's gain of information from this convenient personality inventory.
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- Authors
- Saucier, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Oregon (US)
- Corresponding author
- Saucier, Gerard
- ORCID
- Saucier, Gerard
- Venue
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1998-04
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 263-276
- ISSN
- 0022-3891 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7752
- OpenAlex
- W2032852152
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 0.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01da008417-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH49227)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA-08417)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- NEO-FFI, NEO-PI-R, personality facets, personality assessment, factor structure, reliability statistics, self-report scale
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, United States, Reproducibility of Results
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