Analyses of Digman's Child-Personality Data: Derivation of Big-Five Factor Scores From Each of Six Samples Export

@article{citeulike:6095799, abstract = {One of the world's richest collections of teacher descriptions of elementary-school children was obtained by John M. Digman from 1959 to 1967 in schools on two Hawaiian islands. In six phases of data collection, 88 teachers described 2,572 of their students, using one of five different sets of personality variables. The present report provides findings from new analyses of these important data, which have never before been analyzed in a comprehensive manner. When factors developed from carefully selected markers of the Big-Five factor structure were compared to those based on the total set of variables in each sample, the congruence between both types of factors was quite high. Attempts to extend the structure to 6 and 7 factors revealed no other broad factors beyond the Big Five in any of the 6 samples. These robust findings provide significant new evidence for the structure of teacher-based assessments of child personality attributes.}, address = {University of Oregon and Oregon Research Institute}, author = {Goldberg, Lewis R.}, citeulike-article-id = {6095799}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6494.695161}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/118994301/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1111/1467-6494.695161}, issn = {1467-6494}, journal = {Journal of Personality}, keywords = {check, data, leeds, leighday, publication, publications, resources, rewards, sources}, number = {5}, pages = {709--744}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 21:41:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Analyses of Digman's Child-Personality Data: Derivation of Big-Five Factor Scores From Each of Six Samples}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6494.695161}, volume = {69}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6095799 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6095799 N2 - One of the world's richest collections of teacher descriptions of elementary-school children was obtained by John M. Digman from 1959 to 1967 in schools on two Hawaiian islands. In six phases of data collection, 88 teachers described 2,572 of their students, using one of five different sets of personality variables. The present report provides findings from new analyses of these important data, which have never before been analyzed in a comprehensive manner. When factors developed from carefully selected markers of the Big-Five factor structure were compared to those based on the total set of variables in each sample, the congruence between both types of factors was quite high. Attempts to extend the structure to 6 and 7 factors revealed no other broad factors beyond the Big Five in any of the 6 samples. These robust findings provide significant new evidence for the structure of teacher-based assessments of child personality attributes. IS - 5 JF - Journal of Personality SN - 1467-6494 AD - University of Oregon and Oregon Research Institute EP - 744 TI - Analyses of Digman's Child-Personality Data: Derivation of Big-Five Factor Scores From Each of Six Samples VL - 69 SP - 709 KW - check KW - data KW - leeds KW - leighday KW - publication KW - publications KW - resources KW - rewards KW - sources AU - Goldberg, Lewis PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6494.695161 ER -