THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SCORES ON ANALOGOUS SCALES FROM 4 PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES IN 50 NORMAL MEN

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.