Relation of the Big Five to the EASI scales and the Thurstone Temperament Schedule

• Published in: Personality and individual differences Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 193 - 204
• Main Author: Shafer, Alan B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2001; Elsevier
• Subjects: Big Five; Biological and medical sciences; EASI Scales; Five factor model; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Personality tests; Personality. Affectivity; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; Thurstone Temperament Schedule; Big Five; EASI scales; Thurstone Temperament Schedule; Human; Neuroticism; Impulsivity; Extraversion introversion; Correlation analysis; Evaluation scale; Emotionality Activity Sociability and Impulsivity Temperament Survey Buss Plomin; Psychometrics; Emotion emotionality; Personality; Temperament; Temperament Schedule Thurstone
• ISSN: 0191-8869; 1873-3549
• DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00128-8

Principal components, canonical correlation and regression analyses were used to examine the relation of Big Five markers to the EASI temperament scales (Study 1) and the Thurstone Temperament Schedule (Study 2). In Study 1 ( n=147) across all three types of analyses the results indicated that the EASI Sociability, Emotionality and Impulsivity scales appeared to be parallel to the Big Five Extraversion, Neuroticism and Conscientiousness scales, respectively. In Study 2 ( n=200) across all three types of analyses the Thurstone Reflective and Emotionally Stable scales appeared to be roughly parallel to the Big Five Openness and Neuroticism scales, respectively. All four of the remaining Thurstone scales measure Big Five Extraversion to some degree, but the Sociable and Dominant scales appear to be slightly purer measures Extraversion.