Dimensions of Personality and Meaning
- 1 September 1965
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 4 (3) , 161-168
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00458.x
Abstract
Research in the field of personality assessment has established two main dimensions, referred to as ‘emotional stability’ and ‘introversion’. Osgood's work with the semantic differential has established three dimensions of meaning: evaluation, activity and potency. Analyses of teachers' personality ratings of their pupils led to the hypothesis that these two sets of dimensions are part of the same universe. An experiment was devised to test this hypothesis within a specific social context: teachers made personality ratings and applied semantic differential scales to 200 secondary school boys. The measures were correlated, a principal components analysis was obtained, and the axes were rotated to the Varimax criterion. An examination of the Varimax factors showed that, in general, the hypothesis was substantiated.Keywords
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