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A Comparative Study in Multiple-Factor Analysis of “Neurotic” Tendency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

I. D. MacCrone and
A. Starfield
I. D. MacCrone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
A. Starfield
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Abstract

The original aim of this investigation was to discover what relations exist between race attitudes and certain personality traits. For that purpose, a standard neurotic inventory and an attitude scale were applied to three dissimilar groups of subjects, and the results, obtained by multiple-factor analysis carried out independently for each of the three groups, compared with one another. The components of neurotic tendency, as displayed by each of the three groups, show a high measure of agreement and appear to be reconcilable with other interpretations of neurotic personality. So far as the original aim of the study is concerned, there appears to be a slight but significant tendency for the neurotic factor of hypersensitiveness to affect the race attitudes of Europeans towards the native in South Africa in a negative or unfavorable direction.

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Psychometrika , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1949, pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © 1949 The Psychometric Society

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