A Comparison Between 12 Scales in Tellegen's
Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) and the Corresponding 12
Preliminary IPIP Scales Measuring Similar Constructs
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SCALE NAMES |
Number of Items |
Mean Item |
Coefficient Alpha |
Correlation |
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IPIP |
MPQ |
IPIP |
MPQ |
IPIP |
MPQ |
IPIP |
MPQ |
IPIP vs. MPQ |
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+ - |
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Joyfulness |
Wellbeing
(WB) |
5+5 = 10 |
22+ 1 = 23 |
.34 |
.30 |
.84 |
.90 |
.70 [.81] |
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Power-Seeking |
Social
Potency (SP) |
5+5 = 10 |
17+ 8 = 25 |
.37 |
.25 |
.85 |
.89 |
.80 [.92] |
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Achievement-Seeking |
Achievement
(AC) |
6+4 = 10 |
14+ 6 = 20 |
.28 |
.20 |
.79 |
.84 |
.64 [.79] |
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Friendliness |
Social
Closeness (SC) |
5+5 = 10 |
9+12 = 21 |
.36 |
.23 |
.85 |
.86 |
.73 [.85] |
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Emotional
Instability |
Stress
Reaction (SR) |
5+5 = 10 |
21+ 2 = 23 |
.35 |
.27 |
.84 |
.89 |
.75 [.87] |
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Belligerence |
Aggression
(AG) |
5+5 = 10 |
16+ 3 = 19 |
.26 |
.12 |
.77 |
.72 |
.59 [.79] |
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Distrust |
Alienation
(AL) |
7+3 = 10 |
18+ 2 = 20 |
.33 |
.20 |
.83 |
.82 |
.45 [.55] |
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Planfulness |
Control
(CO) |
5+5 = 10 |
13+11 = 24 |
.26 |
.17 |
.78 |
.83 |
.70 [.87] |
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Risk-Avoidance |
Harmavoidance (HA) |
3+7 = 10 |
11+15 = 26 |
.30 |
.15 |
.80 |
.82 |
.49 [.60] |
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Conservatism |
Traditionalism
(TR) |
5+5 = 10 |
22+ 5 = 27 |
.34 |
.20 |
.83 |
.87 |
.80 [.94] |
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Imagination |
Absorption
(AB) |
6+4 = 10 |
34+ 0 = 34 |
.27 |
.20 |
.78 |
.90 |
.62 [.74] |
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Mean |
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5+5 = 10 |
17+ 6 = 23 |
.31 |
.21 |
.81 |
.85 |
.66 [.79] |
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Unlikely
Virtues |
Unlikely
Virtues (UV) |
12+5= 17 |
7 + 7 = 14 |
.16 |
.14 |
.76 |
.68 |
.56[.78] |
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Note. All values are based on 448 participants from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample. [Values in brackets are the correlations between the corresponding NEO and MPQ scales when corrected for the scale reliabilities.] There is no item overlap within either of the two scales sets, nor between the MPQ and IPIP item pools. Note. The numbers under the " + -" heading
indicate the number of positively and negatively items in the scale. So, for
example, "5+3=8" indicates that there are 5 positively keyed items
and 3 negatively keyed items, for 8 total items. |
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