title: How Much Is Personality Structure Affected If One or More Highest-Level Factors Are First Removed? A Sequential Factors Approach.
abstract: Rotations of 1 to 12 factors were compared by Goldberg's "bass-ackward" method, with or without initially holding constant one or more principal components. Two sets of data were employed: ratings by 320 undergraduates using 435 personality-descriptive adjectives, and 512 Oregon community members' responses to 184 scales from 8 personality inventories. Holding constant none or one or three initial factors made relatively little difference to the resulting structure. On the whole, that structure was not strongly hierarchical: allowing an additional dimension usually resulted in a new substantive dimension rather than in the splitting of an old one.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Loehlin
authors.affiliation: Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Lewis R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Goldberg
keywords: adjective self-ratings; bass-ackward method; general factor of personality; personality factors; personality scales