Integration Of Two Personality Factor Systems
Andrew L. Comrey, Kay Redfield Jamison, Nathan King · Multivariate Behavioral Research · 1968
Six major personality factors in inventory items have been developed through previous investigations in this series. These factors have been defined by analyzing total scores over groups of homogeneous items. An inventory containing items t o measure these factors, the Comrey inventory, and the Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey, or GZTS, were administered to 262 volunteers. The GZTS was divided up into groups of relatively homogeneous items. Total scores over 80 item groups from the two inventories were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. Of the 10 major factors obtained, three were represented only by item groups from the GZTS, namely, General Activity, Thoughtfulness, and Masculinity. Empathy and Compulsion were defined al- most exclusively by item groups from the Comrey inventory. The remaining major factors, Shyness, Dependence, Neuroticism, Hostility, and Socialization, were defined by item groups from both inventories.