On the dimensionality of the California Psychological Inventory Socialization scale.

Abstract

The California Psychological Inventory Socialization (So) scale is assumed to measure a dimension of socialized behaviors based on role-taking ability. Some studies have reported that the internal structure of the So scale may be complex. The present study tested its dimensionality on three groups of male and female, criminal or noncriminal subjects. All So items except one were used, and these items were divided into six subscales. The number of factors producing the correlations of subscales was tested in maximum likelihood factor analyses made separately for the groups. The results made a single factor seem reasonable. The variance-covariance matrices differed significantly for the groups. The fit of a one-factor model for all three groups was therefore tested in a simultaneous factor analysis for several populations, and good fit was obtained.

Integrity Tests and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Review and Empirical Test of Two Alternative Positions

“…For at least one personality-based integrity test, eigenvalues showed a much more even trend in PCA (Paajanen, 1988). Moreover, the latter type of tests are either explicitly developed to measure several independent constructs (Borofsky, 1993), or are based on Gough's (1960) CPI-Socialization scale (Gough, 1971;Hogan & Hogan, 1989), which itself was repeatedly found to be multidimensional by rational (Gough & Peterson, 1952) and empirical (Collins & Bagozzi, 1999) examination (but see Rosen, 1977, who also confirmed a one-factorial solution). More recent studies involving item level analyses of both types of integrity tests simultaneously either yielded one-factor (Hogan & Brinkmeyer, 1997) or four-factor (Wanek, Sackett, & Ones, 2003) solutions.…”