A COMPARISON OF 3 STRUCTURAL MODELS FOR PERSONALITY - THE BIG 3, THE BIG 5, AND THE ALTERNATIVE 5

The major factors from 3 models of personality are compared: Eysenck's Three Factor model, Costa and McCrae's version of the Big Five, and Z uckerman and Kuhlman's Alternative Five. The 1st study describes the d evelopment of a questionnaire measure for the Alternative Five and the reliability assessments of the scales. The 2nd study used factor anal ysis to compare the factors among the scales from the 3 models. Extrav ersion and Neuroticism were quite similar across all 3 models. Eysenck 's Psychoticism scale marked a factor that included Conscientiousness and Impulsive Sensation Seeking factors from the other 2 models. Agree ableness and Aggression-Hostility formed a 4th factor. Openness could be identified as a factor using facet scales, but it showed no converg ence with other factors. Four of the 5 factors showed convergence acro ss at least 2 of the models.