A contemplated revision of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory

Robert R. McCrae; Paul T. Costa

doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00118-1

A contemplated revision of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory

Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa

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Abstract

Previous item factor analyses and readability analyses suggested that 14 of the 60 items in the NEO Five-Factor Inventory might usefully be replaced. New analyses in high school ( N =1959) and adult ( N =1492) samples led to the selection of new items from the remaining pool of Revised NEO Personality Inventory items. The resulting scales showed modest improvements in reliability and factor structure, and equivalent validity. These new scales should be appropriate for most respondents age 14 and up. However, continued use of the current instrument is also reasonable for most applications. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	587-596
Number of pages	10
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00118-1
State	Published - Feb 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adolescents
Factor analysis
Five-Factor Model
Item analysis
Scale development

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Psychology(all)

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