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

A test of behavioral rigidity.

“…The criticism of employing an arbitrarily selected approach seems to hold also for the studies using factor-analytic methods (2,3,14,17), where rigidity factors are interpreted in terms of sets of tests suggested by the particular inclination of the school or system of psychological thought to which these investigators happened to adhere.…”

Factor analysis of counselor communications.

“…The small A r gives the results obtained here rather low reliability, and the factor interpretations must be qualified accordingly. It is customary in factor analysis that N > n. (For examples of factor analysis deviating from this practice see Wright, 1961 andCattell, Dubin, &Saunders, 1954. ) In certain factor solutions, if A" < n. it leads to an awkward situation where an n-sp&ce is interpreted to be initially imbedded in an A T -space.…”

Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: I

“…A review by Fred Damarin and Messick (Damarin and Messick 1965;Messick 1967Messick , 1991 of factor analytic studies by Cattell and his coworkers (e.g., Cattell et al 1954;Cattell and Gruen 1955;Cattell and Scheier 1959) of response style measures and performance tests of personality that do not rely on self-reports, suggested two kinds of acquiescence: (a) uncritical agreement, a tendency to agree; and (b) impulsive acceptance, a tendency to accept many characteristics as descriptive of the self. In a subsequent factor analysis of true-keyed and false-keyed halves of original and reversed MMPI scales (items revised to reverse their meaning), two such acquiescence factors were found (Messick 1967).…”