Zuckerman's Revised Alternative Five-Factor Model: Validation of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire in Four French-Speaking Countries

• Published in: Journal of personality assessment Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 358 - 365
• Main Authors: Rossier, Jérôme, Hansenne, Michel, Baudin, Nicolas, Morizot, Julien
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2012; Taylor & Francis; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alternatives; Belgium; Biological and medical sciences; Canada; Confirmatory factor analysis; Discriminant analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Five factor model; France; French language; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Language; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Psychological; Neuroticism; Personality; Personality Assessment - standards; Personality Disorders - diagnosis; Personality tests; Personality traits; Personality. Affectivity; Psychological tests; Psychologie sociale, industrielle & organisationnelle; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie; Sensation seeking; Social & behavioral sciences, psychology; Social, industrial & organizational psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Switzerland; Validation; Validation studies; Young Adult; Canada; Belgium; France; Switzerland; Human; Test validation; Personality test; Foreign language version; French; Questionnaire; Psychometrics
• ISSN: 0022-3891; 1532-7752; 1532-7752
• DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2012.657024

The aim of this study was to analyze the replicability of Zuckerman's revised Alternative Five-factor model in a French-speaking context by validating the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) simultaneously in 4 French-speaking countries. The total sample was made up of 1,497 subjects from Belgium, Canada, France, and Switzerland. The internal consistencies for all countries were generally similar to those found for the normative U.S. and Spanish samples. A factor analysis confirmed that the normative structure replicated well and was stable within this French-speaking context. Moreover, multigroup confirmatory factor analyses have shown that the ZKA-PQ reaches scalar invariance across these 4 countries. Mean scores were slightly different for women and men, with women scoring higher on Neuroticism but lower on Sensation Seeking. Globally, mean score differences across countries were small. Overall, the ZKA-PQ seems an interesting alternative to assess both lower and higher order personality traits for applied or research purposes.