An Examination of the Factor Structure of Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16-PE-E) in Ahvaz

Ebadi, Gholam Hossein; Delavar, Ali; Najarian, Bahman

doi:10.22055/psy.2003.17666

An Examination of the Factor Structure of Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16-PE-E) in Ahvaz

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Gholam Hossein Ebadi ¹

Ali Delavar ²

Bahman Najarian ³

¹ Expert in charge of Research Council of Khuzestan Education Organization

² Member of the academic staff of Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Allameh Tabatabaei University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ Member of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

10.22055/psy.2003.17666

Abstract

This study was aimed at examining the factor structure and psychometric characteristics of Cattell’s 16-PF Personality Questionnaire (version E). To this end, a Farsi translation of 16-PF(E) was administered to 513 subjects randomly selected from all personnel of government organizations and institutions in Ahvaz. Based upon the results of a factor analysis carried out on the data, a four-factor structure was indicated, while 69 items of the 16-P(E) didn’t load on any of four extracted factors. Validity of the four factors (i.e., new sub-scales of the Farsi version of 16-PF-E) was examined by factorial validation, and their reliability coeffcients were assessed by Cronbach Alpha. On the whole, the reliability coefficients were satisfactory and validity coefficients were significant. According to these findings, the four-factor solution is more suitable than the 16- factor structure of the 16-PF(E) for use in the Iranian population. The Farsi version of the 16-PF(E) (i.e., 4-PF-E-A) appears to possess sound psychometric characteristics for use in both clinical diagnosis and research settings.

Keywords

Factor Structure. Cattell’s 16

PF Questionnaire

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