HOMOGENEOUS DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY SCALE CONTENT

Four alternatively worded true and false keyed and positively and negatively stated types of each of five item content sets were prepared. Items were chosen from the Play, Social Recognition, Exhibition, Cognitive Structure, and Autonomy-dimensions in the Personality Research Form item pool on the basis of high content saturation, freedom from desirability bias, and moderate endorsement frequencies. Correlational and factor analytic results yielded consistent evidence that, contrary to certain previous results, content dimensions could be defined clearly and uniquely regardless of direction of wording effect. Content dimensions proved to be orthogonal to factors defined by response style marker scales for acquiescence and desirability. Stylistic consistencies derived from an adjective checklist were related to a desirability factor of to a factor identified as acquiescence to personality items.