Development of Chinese seven factors personality inventory

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 the inventory was valid, and NFI and CFI were greater than 0.90. Conclusion CSPI met the measurement requirement in validity, reliability and explanation ability. Key words: Chinese seven factors personality inventory; Norm; Factor analysis; Validity; Reliability