A factor analysis of the Gray-Wilson personality questionnaire

Principal components analysis of the Gray-Wilson Personality Questionnaire revealed six fairly independent factors that bore only a partial resemblance to the six animal behaviour paradigms that the test was devised to measure. Taken together with the inter-scale correlations reported previously thi...

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Published inPersonality and individual differences Vol. 11; no. 10; pp. 1037 - 1044
Main Authors Wilson, Glenn D., Gray, Jeffrey A., Barrett, Paul T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 1990
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Human
Test validation
Factor analysis
Questionnaire
Psychometrics
Personality
Personality Questionnaire Gray Wilson
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Summary:Principal components analysis of the Gray-Wilson Personality Questionnaire revealed six fairly independent factors that bore only a partial resemblance to the six animal behaviour paradigms that the test was devised to measure. Taken together with the inter-scale correlations reported previously this raises certain questions about the application of brain systems derived from animal learning studies to the analysis of individual differences at the human level.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/0191-8869(90)90131-A