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, Angel Blanch 1, Salvador Gallart 1, Joan-Marc Dolcet 11 University of Lleida, Spain
*Correspondence: Anton Aluja, Area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, Biomedical Institute for Research (IRBLLeida), University of Lleida, Avd. Estudi General 4, 25100 Lleida (Spain).
E-mail: aluja@pip.udl.cat
Abstract
This study was aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and the relationship of age with the answers, internal consistency and factorial structure of the TCI-R. The questionnaire was responded by a sample of 928 voluntary subjects (396 males and 532 women), with a mean age of 30 years old. The participants under 30 scored substantially higher in Novelty Seeking, and to a lesser extent in Reward Dependence, while aged subjects scored significant higher in Harm Avoidance, Self-Directiveness and Cooperation. The global coefficients of factorial congruence were higher than 0.90 in all age groups. The goodness-of-fit indexes in the CFA were unsatisfactory for the simple structure models, although improved when considering secondary loadings. Implications for further research with the TCI-R are discussed.
Keywords
- TCI-R
- factorial analysis
- personality models
- confirmatory factor analysis
- Personality aging difference