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    Cattell’s Theory of Personality

    Introduction:

    Raymond Cattell was an influential psychologist who


    developed new analytic techniques that allowed for more
    nuanced empirical measurements of the components of
    personality and intelligence.

    While at Harvard Cattell first developed the idea that the


    new factor-analytic method that Spearman had pioneered
    to study cognitive abilities could also be a powerful tool for
    identifying the components of personality. This insight
    eventually yielded his widely referenced theory of
    personality,
    Factor Analysis
    • One of the key theories of psychometric research is factor analysis. Raymond Cattell
    helped to advance this statistical method in the 1920s, as a way to improve current
    models of measurement in psychology. Factor analysis is a method to find underlying
    correlations in large groups of data. It is a great tool for simplifying very large
    amounts of data to find common characteristics within the data.
    • Raymond Cattell is known for using factor analytic methods, rather than more
    subjective or qualitative methods, to explore personality traits. He was a pioneer of
    using factor analysis to study behaviors. The factor analysis method is what led
    Cattell to identify the 16 individual traits that are central to his personality theory.
    In comparing the three types of data, Cattell made some interesting
    observations regarding L-data. Although it occurs naturally, measuring it is
    artificial and somewhat arbitrary. Although it is objective in the sense that
    it is real behavior, it is neither created nor controlled, it is simply observed.
    It is also subject to cultural differences much more so than Q-data and T-
    data. Of particular concern to Cattell, however, was the commonplace
    nature of L-data:
    • The 16 Primary Traits of Cattell's Personality Theory

    Cattell's theory of personality described 16 personality traits that each


    person possesses to varying degrees. The personality traits are referred to
    as "primary factors," of which someone can be in the "low range," or "high
    range." Within those rangers are descriptors of attributes someone may
    possess, or ways someone may act, who falls within those ranges.

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