Comparison of Factor Analytic Results with Two-Choice and Seven-Choice Personality Item Formats

Comrey, Andrew L.; Montag, Itzhak

doi:10.1177/014662168200600304

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“…Each eigenvalue of the Likert version was higher than the corresponding eigenvalue of the binary version, indicating more reliable components. However, the multiple-response version was only slightly superior to the binary version, which was a marked contrast to the findings of previous studies (Comrey, & Montag, 1982;Oswald & Velicer, 1980; press; Velicer & Stevenson, 1978). The results with respect to subject acceptance were more clear cut.…”

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Item Format and the Structure of the Personal Orientation Inventory

Velicer

DiClemente

Corriveau

1984

Applied Psychological Measurement

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Two versions of the Personal Orientation Inventory were administered to 317 subjects. One version em ployed the standard two-choice response format. The other version used a six-choice response format. The purpose of this study was (1) to determine if a multi ple-response format resulted in improved psychometric properties, (2) to compare the component structure of the two versions, and (3) to compare the empirically derived scales with the theoretically defined scales. The results showed a slight improvement for the mul tiple-response format, but with poorly defined compo nent patterns. The change in format resulted in a change in component structure. The components de rived from both versions did not correspond to the theoretical scales. An analysis indicated that the only well-defined component from either response format could be interpreted as measuring social desirability responding rather than measuring content. A follow-up questionnaire indicated greater subject acceptance of the six-choice version.

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Item Format and the Structure of the Personal Orientation Inventory

Velicer

DiClemente

Corriveau

1984

Applied Psychological Measurement

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“…of stimulus materials requires further clarification. The present findings support the conclusions reached by Comrey and Montag (1982) rather than Velicer and Stevenson (1978) for the factor structure of personality items when the stimuli are unipolar ratings to personality statements.…”

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Dichotomous and Multipoint Scales Using Bipolar Adjectives

King

Klockars

1983

Applied Psychological Measurement

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Subjects responded to a set of self-descnptive bipo lar adjectives in either a dichotomous format or a 7-point bipolar rating scale format. In addition, each subject answered a measure of social desirability re sponding rate The responses of over 400 subjects in each format were factor analyzed, followed by a vari max rotation The factor structure for the formats were strikingly similar and closely reflected the traits repre sented by the adjectives. Social desirability was found to be of minimal influence for either format. However, the factors derived from the multipoint format were slightly clearer and accounted for more variance. In addition, trait measures produced by the sum of four adjective scales from a common content dimension were more internally consistent using the multipoint format.

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“…Each of these ratings was done using a 6-point Likert-type response format (ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree) instead of the true/false format usually used on the URES to allow for finer discriminations than would be possible using the dichotomous true-false format. Comrey andMontag (1982) andFtamer (1983) have demonstrated that Likert-type response formats are more reliable and valid than dichotomous true-false formats. examined these individual subscales with regard to perceived discrepancy and actual discrepancy.…”

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Distress and help‐seeking as a function of person‐environment fit and self‐efficacy: A causal model

Tracey¹,

Sherry

Keitel

1986

American J of Comm Psychol

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Self-efficacy, indicators of distress (state anxiety and frequency of physical symptoms), help-seeking (visits to the campus health center, an outside physician, and a counselor), and two measures of person-environment (P-E) fit were assessed on 152 college students and examined in a LISREL model. The two P-E fit measures were perceived discrepancy, the profile difference score between how each student would like their residence floor and how each viewed it as being, and actual discrepancy, the profile difference score between how each would like the floor to be and the mean rating for how floor residents viewed the floor. It was found that self-efficacy and perceived discrepancy had independent and moderate effects on distress but not on help-seeking, whereas actual discrepancy was found to have a strong effect on help-seeking and no direct effect on distress. Help-seeking was found to have a strong negative effect on distress.

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Comparison of Factor Analytic Results with Two-Choice and Seven-Choice Personality Item Formats

Cited by 46 publications

References 8 publications

Item Format and the Structure of the Personal Orientation Inventory

Item Format and the Structure of the Personal Orientation Inventory

Dichotomous and Multipoint Scales Using Bipolar Adjectives

Distress and help‐seeking as a function of person‐environment fit and self‐efficacy: A causal model

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