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Relationships between psychological differentiation and Cattell's personality traits
Abstract:
It was hypothesized that individuals who are field-dependent are discriminated from those who are field-independent by Cattell's personality factor A, F, and Q2. A sample of adults (N=68 male and female graduate students) was tested by means of Oltman's Portable Rod-and-Frame Test, field-dependence groups thus being established. Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire was then administered to the sample. Discriminant analysis of the data resulted in the research hypothesis being supported. Thus, the hypothesized theoretical link between Witkin's psychological differentiation personality dimension and certain Cattellian personality factors was supported empirically. An exploratory stepwise analysis indicated that the Cattellian factors A, L, O, and M may also form a discriminant function which distinguishes between the two groups.
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