Development of Chinese seven factors personality inventory / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To transform the vocabulary based Chinese personality (VBCP) to a sentence based Chinese personality inventory.Methods Based on the dimension theory and mapping sentence,347 sentences were developed and quantified with equal weight.772 subjects participated in a pilot study and an exploratory factor analysis was conducted to the collected data.A trial version of the Chinese Personality Inventory with 7 factors was developed.With the trial version as the survey instrument,3190 subjects from 22 provinces and centrally administered municipalities in China participated in the survey,the exploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis,annova,t-test,correlation and cronbach test were utilized in this research.The Chinese seven factors personality inventory (CSPI) was developed,which included seven factors with 130 items.Results The 7 factors of Chinese personality inventory were emotion,innovation,persistency,virtue,extraversion,agreeableness and tradition.42.27％ of the total variance of the seven factors was explained.The internal reliability coefficient was Cronbach' s α =0.902(P＜0.001),while the internal reliability coefficients among the factors were between 0.794-0.947.The retest reliability coefficients of the factors were between 0.696-0.921 (P＜ 0.001).Significant positive correlations (r ranged from 0.151 to 0.548,P＜0.01)were found between 5 of the 7 factors of CSPI,but innovation and tradition.Significant positive correlations (r ranged from 0.193 to 0.715,P＜0.05,P＜0.01)were found between the 7 factors and CSPI.Significant correlations between CSPI and EPQ-RSC were found (P＜0.05).Confirmatory factor analysis showed that thc inventory was valid,and NFI and CFI were greater than 0.90.Conclusion CSPI met the measurement requirement in validity,reliability and explanation ability.