EVALUATING REPLICABILITY OF FACTORS IN THE REVISED NEO PERSONALITY-INVENTORY - CONFIRMATORY FACTOR-ANALYSIS VERSUS PROCRUSTES ROTATION

Despite the empirical robustness of the 5-factor model of personality, recent confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of NEO Personality Invento ry (NEO-PI) data suggest they do not fit the hypothesized model. In a replication study of 229 adults, a series of CFAs showed that Revised NEO-PI scales are not simple-structured but do approximate the normati ve 5-factor structure. CFA goodness-of-fit indices, however, were not high. Comparability analyses showed that no more than 5 factors were r eplicable, which calls into question some assumptions underlying the u se of CFA. An alternative method that uses targeted rotation was prese nted and illustrated with data from Chinese and Japanese versions of t he Revised NEO-PI that clearly replicated the 5-factor structure.