title: Some comments on a factor analysis of the 16PF and the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised.
abstract: This paper comments on unusual results recently published by Byravan and Ramanaiah. Their factor analysis of the 16PF and the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised showed the scales of the two tests to be largely unrelated. However, two recent factor analyses of these tests show strong relationships between the two sets of global factors--as strong as between the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised five factors and Goldberg's big-five factors. Possible reasons for the discrepancy are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing, Champaign, Illinois 61824-1188, USA.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Cattell
mesh_terms: D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results