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Verification of hypothesized factors in one hundred and fifteen objective personality test designs

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This paper reports on the third of a series of four experiments using similar concepts and methods for objective personality measurement, and overlapping test batteries. One hundred students were measured with 115 tests. The scores were correlated and factored by a re-iterated multiple group centroid method. The 17 factors thus obtained were rotated toward a clear simple structure. The relation of the rotated factors to earlier ones is indicated, but no extensive interpretation is attempted.

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    R. B. Cattell, S. S. Dubin & D. R. Saunders

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Cattell, R.B., Dubin, S.S. & Saunders, D.R. Verification of hypothesized factors in one hundred and fifteen objective personality test designs. Psychometrika 19, 209–230 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289186

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