TY - JOUR
AU - Comrey, Andrew L.
AB - EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT VOL. XXII, No. 3, 1962 A STUDY OF THIRTY-FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS1 L. COMREY ANDREW The California at Los of Angeles University SiNcE its the main focus in measurement personality inception, has been measures. In in- many upon broad, factorially complex assess- with stances, particularly methods, quantitative projective based ment has been subordinated to interpretations descriptive clinical intuition. at upon objective personality Early attempts the Minnesota assessment, e.g., Multiphasic Personality Inventory, scales which to be several produced proved measuring relatively variables rather than dimensions independent simultaneously single well described scale names Besides the 1959). by (Comrey, 1957, fact that several entities were included relatively independent being under one there has been the fact that rubric, disturbing many scales different and different presumably measuring things having names show a of A correlation of for high degree overlap. .86, has been between the Sc and Pt scales of the example, reported et This much between scales MMPI (Wheeler, al., 1951). overlap is inefficient unless the scales are combined within a given system it creates some confusion as to to one total score. Furthermore, give measured the scale names that different what is when suggest being traits are assessed. 
TI - A Study of Thirty-Five Personality Dimensions
JF - Educational and Psychological Measurement
DO - 10.1177/001316446202200312
DA - 1962-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-study-of-thirty-five-personality-dimensions-HZ4wfkAxNW
SP - 543
EP - 552
VL - 22
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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