Life Styles Inventory: Its Applicability in the Canadian Context

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The purpose of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of Lafferty's (1973) Life Style Inventory in the Canadian context, and to evaluate the circumplexity of those life styles. A total of 581 Canadian subjects (males = 302; females = 274) responded to the 240-item inventory. The twelve subscales of the Life Style Inventory were found to be internally consistent. The item-to-total correlations yielded acceptable estimates of convergent and discriminant validity. The pattern of correlations among the life styles also indicated construct validity. However, a factor analysis of the twelve life styles defined three broader orientations instead of four as hypothesized by Lafferty. Also, the mapping of the factor loadings of the twelve life styles on a two-dimensional space did not produce a perfect circumplex, which could indicate that the twelve life styles constitute a linear, simplex model.

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