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Title: | Psychometric properties and comparison of different techniques for factor analysis on the Big Five Inventory from a Flemish sample | Authors: | Lovik, Aniko NASSIRI, Vahid VERBEKE, Geert MOLENBERGHS, Geert Sodermans, An Katrien |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Source: | PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 117, p. 122-129 | Abstract: | In this paper we examine the Dutch language version of the Big Five Inventory, a short questionnaire used to measure the Big Five personality factors, on a Flemish sample coming from the Divorce in Flanders study. Our aim is twofold. First, we show that based on the Flemish sample the Dutch BFI has good psychometric properties and a clear factor structure comparable to a previous Dutch sample and in the international Big Five research literature. Second, we compare the usual method of analysis, namely factor analysis with principal component extraction with varimax rotation, to several methods that each address a common problem in factor analysis. We compare the original analysis to factor analysis with a non-orthogonal rotation (addressing the problem of correlated factors), after ipsatisation (considering individual response styles), using polychoric correlations (taking into account the type of the responses), and using multiple imputation to handle missingness (to account for potential bias due to listwise deletion). The five factor analyses do not differ substantially. However, the analysis using polychoric correlations has the highest factor loadings and explains more of the variance than any other analysis; the analysis using ipsatised scores provides the worst results in supporting the Big Five structure. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Notes: | [Lovik, Aniko; Nassiri, Vahid; Verbeke, Geert; Molenberghs, Geert] Univ Leuven, KU Leuven, I BioStat, Leuven, Belgium. [Verbeke, Geert; Molenberghs, Geert] Hasselt Univ, I BioStat, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Sodermans, An Katrien] Univ Leuven, Ctr Sociol Res, Leuven, Belgium. | Keywords: | big five inventory; divorce in Flanders; factor analysis; factor rotation; ipsatisation; listwise deletion; missing data; multiple imputation; ordinal variables; polychoric correlation;Big Five Inventory; Divorce in Flanders; Factor analysis; Factor rotation; Ipsatisation; Listwise deletion; Missing data; Multiple imputation; Ordinal variables; Polychoric correlation | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/24449 | ISSN: | 0191-8869 | e-ISSN: | 1873-3549 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.048 | ISI #: | 000406567500020 | Rights: | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2018 |
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