Psychol Rep. 1995 Dec;77(3):1307-11. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1995.77.3f.1307.
Psychological reports
H E Cattell
PMID: 8643796 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1995.77.3f.1307
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.