Some factors of temperament: A re-examination

Abstract

By application of the technique presented earlier, the factors found by the Guilfords in two studies of personality factors are reanalyzed. The rotation technique for the isolation of meaningful factors relates the factors of the two studies to each other through three common items, and to other factors and traits appearing in the literature of personality measurement. For each of four of the factors resulting from the analysis of the first battery there is close agreement with its counterpart from the analysis of the second battery with respect to loadings of the three common items. These factors are interpreted as perseverance, surgency, flexibility, and tension. Other factors appearing in only one or the other of the batteries are tentatively identified.