Psychometric Properties of the Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire in Korea
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 60 (1) , 131-141
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00131640021970411
Abstract
The psychometric properties of the Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire (NPQ) were investigated using a sample of 221 Korean respondents. First, estimates of internal-consistency reliability for scores on the NPQ scales were found to be comparable to those reported from North American samples. Second, a factor analysis of the NPQ scales showed, as expected, that five factors resembling the Big Five can be recovered from the NPQ scales. Finally, the size and the pattern of correlations between NPQ scales and several external criteria were similar to previous findings involving traditional verbal questionnaires. Based on the evidence indicated above, it was concluded that the applicability of the NPQ in Korea is quite promising. Theoretical and practical implications of recovering the Big Five factors from a completely nonverbal measure of personality also were discussed.Keywords
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