FACTOR-ANALYSIS OF THE NEO-PI INVENTORY AND THE COMREY PERSONALITY-SCALES IN AN ITALIAN SAMPLE

The Costa and McCrae NEO-PI Inventory and the Comrey Personality Scale s (CPS) were administered to a diverse sample of 268 Italians. The 40 subscales that define the eight CPS factors, 18 facet scales defining Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness of the NEO-PI plus the NEO-PI single scales of Conscientiousness and Agreeableness were intercorrela ted together with a dichotomous Sex variable to produce a 61 x 61 corr elation matrix. This matrix was factor analyzed. The best orthogonal s olution yielded eight viable factors: Neuroticism, defined by both NEO -PI Neuroticism and CPS Emotional Stability subscales; Extraversion, d efined by both NEO-PI Extraversion and CPS Extraversion subscales; Ope nness, defined only by NEO-PI Openness subscales: Empathy, defined by CPS Empathy subscales and the NEO-PI Agreeableness scale; Orderliness, defined by CPS Orderliness subscales and the NEO-PI Conscientiousness scale; Activity, defined by CPS Activity subscales and the NEO-PI Con scientiousness scale; Trust, defined by CPS Trust subscales and the NE O-PI Agreeableness scale; and CPS Masculinity, identified by CPS Mascu linity subscales and sex. Although not perfectly identified, all the N EO-PI factors emerged in one form or another, and seven of the eight C PS factors emerged. Social Conformity vs Rebelliousness (C) was the on ly CPS factor that failed to be clearly identified in this analysis.