HIGHER-ORDER FACTOR-ANALYSIS OF THE HSPQ IN CZECH YOUTH

Within a large scope study of parental styles of family upbringing and personality trait development in Czech youth the primary factors of t he Cattells' High School Personality Questionnaire have been assessed and intercorrelated in the samples of 717 boys and 688 girls. Thereupo n, the second order factor analysis has been performed, with resulting three clearly defined broader factors in both the male and the female subsamples. These compare to a large extent with the results of the f irst Czech higher order factor analysis by Balcar based on a Czech sam ple two decades ago and, with some variations, to the original Cattell s' analysis published in 1969. However, some differences in the first order factor loadings have been found between Czech boys' and girls' f actor patterns as well as between Czech and American teenagers. This b rings forth some interesting research ideas concerning gender and cult ure personality differences in adolescent youth.