Perceived Dimensions of Personality Traits

In order to find the internal structure of trait inference, 300 college students rated the co-occurrence probability for each pair of the 78 representative traits. The result of the multidimensional scaling analysis(ALSCAL) showed that the obtained three dimensions(about 10% stress level) could be interpreted as evaluation(e.g., good-bad), activity(e.g., activepassive), and potency(e. g., hard-soft) in terms of the general meaning of language. These results were consitent with the Rosenberg's(1968, 1970, 1972, a, b) main findings. The correspondence between the external and the internal trait structure, the techniques of data collection and analysis and the implications for future study were discussed.

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Vol.7 No.1

Perceived Dimensions of Personality Traits

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Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology