Faculty Articles
Cross-Cultural Second Order Factor Structures of the 16PF
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Personality Assessment
ISSN
0022-3891
Publication Date
4-1978
Abstract
Cross-cultural personality research has generated a great amount of data on individual difference patterns in diverse cultures. One of the major instruments used in this research has been Cattell's 16PF. A major question in this research is whether the underlying personality structure is equivalent for different cultures. The present study evaluated the second order factor structure of the 16PF in 101 subjects of European ancestry and 117 subjects of Japanese ancestry. The factor structure for the Japanese was significantly different from that of the caucasian group. The caucasian results did not differ from those reported by Cattell and his associates. The implications of these results for personality theory and for cross-cultural evaluation were briefly discussed.
DOI
10.1207/s15327752jpa4202_9
Volume
42
Issue
2
First Page
167
Last Page
170
NSUWorks Citation
Golden, C. J.
(1978). Cross-Cultural Second Order Factor Structures of the 16PF. Journal of Personality Assessment, 42(2), 167-170.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/475
