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Stairs, Agnes M.; Smith, Gregory T.; Zapolski, Tamika C. B.; Combs, Jessica L.; Settles, Regan E. – Assessment, 2012
The construct of perfectionism is related to many important outcome variables. However, the term "perfectionism" has been defined in many different ways, and items comprising the different existing scales appear to be very different in content. The overarching aim of the present set of studies was to help clarify the specific…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Personality Traits, Factor Analysis, Test Construction
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Goldberg, Lewis R. – Psychological Assessment, 1992
Marker sets of variables to produce the Big-Five personality-factor structure were studied with over 1,000 college students completing adjective anchored bipolar rating scales or unipolar sets of adjectives. A set of 100 unipolar terms were highly robust across diverse samples of self- and peer-descriptions. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Structure, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation