Validation of the Comrey Personality Scales on an Italian sample

Abstract

The Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) were administered to a sample of 268 Italians. The 40 subscales that define the eight CPS factors were intercorrelated along with a dichotomous sex variable. This matrix of correlations was factor analyzed to determine if the same structure of personality traits previously found in other groups would also hold for Italians. All eight CPS personality factors appeared as expected. Factor loadings for the Italian sample were found to be similar to those from the original normative sample and to those for several other ethnic and national groups. This agreement in factor structure occurred despite many significant differences in personality factor score means between this sample and the normative group sample. These findings lend additional support to the premise that all eight personality factors measured by the CPS are important and have considerable stability across cultural boundaries.