F. Curtin et al., THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SCORES ON ANALOGOUS SCALES FROM 4 PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES IN 50 NORMAL MEN, Personality and individual differences, 19(5), 1995, pp. 705-711
This study analyses the relationships between scales from different pe
rsonality questionnaires. Fifty normal young men answered a short form
of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MiniMult), the Ka
rolinska Scales of Personality (KSP), the Eysenck Personality Inventor
y (EPI), and the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ). Relat
ionships between these questionnaires were analyzed by Pearson bivaria
te correlations. These correlations pointed out several common aspects
of basic personality dimensions as measured by the EPI or TPQ and con
firmed that reliable relationships between similar scales from differe
nt personality questionnaires are found even in 50 normal subjects. Ca
nonical correlations with anxiety and aggression factors extracted fro
m the KSP and dimensions from the EPI and the TPQ showed that two basi
c dimensions, anxiety-neuroticism and aggression-extraversion, were fo
und in all three questionnaires and that they remained independent. Th
ese results are in line with the theories considering personality as a
paucidimensional process. With few exceptions, the dimensional approa
ches to personality (EPI, TPQ, KSP) and the clinically oriented catego
rical one (MiniMult) did not measure common aspects of the normal subj
ects' personality.