Personality Traits as Related to Socialization: Test of a Three-Factor Model for Some Personality Scales

A role-taking factor representing a theoretically important personality variable in socialization, was assumed to load the PEN Psychoticism scale (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1968b) and three scales constructed by Rosen and Schalling (1974) of items from the CPI Socialization (So) scale (Gough, 1969). A model of a hypothesized factor structure underlying scores on these scales and some anxiety and extraversion scales was tested in a group of students (N = 225). Estimates of the free parameters of the factor model were obtained in a restricted maximum likelihood factor analysis, but the model showed poor fit. Some restrictions imposed by the model were found less probable in an explorative analysis of reasons for poor fit. Relaxing those restrictions led to a good-fitting three-factor model. The Role-taking factor was separate from and negatively oblique to orthogonal Anxiety and Extraversion factors.