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Sought to determine the higher-order factors in the Interpersonal Style Inventory in separate samples of male (N = 144) and female (N = 173) high school students. A principal axis factor analysis of the 15 scale intercorrelations discolosed five dimensions in each sample. These were hypothesized to represent Interpesonal Involvement, Level of Socialization, Self Control, Autonomy, and Emotional Stability. It is argued that each factor also is measured in at least two of the following multiscore inventories: Personality Research Form, the 16PF, the California Psychological Inventory, and the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey. The advantage of higher level factors lies in their greater generality and generally higher predictive validities.
Lorr et al. (Thu,) studied this question.