A cross-cultural shortened form of the ZKPQ (ZKPQ-50-CC) adapted to English, French, German, and Spanish languages.

Details

Serval ID
serval:BIB_40354
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
A cross-cultural shortened form of the ZKPQ (ZKPQ-50-CC) adapted to English, French, German, and Spanish languages.
Journal
Personality and Individual Differences
Author(s)
Aluja A., Rossier J., García L.F., Angleitner A., Kuhlman M., Zuckerman M.
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2006
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
41
Pages
619-628
Language
english
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to develop a short form of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) with acceptable psychometric properties in four languages: English (United States), French (Switzerland), German (Germany), and Spanish (Spain). The total sample (N = 4,621) was randomly divided into calibration and validation samples. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted in the calibration sample. Eighty items, with loadings equal or higher than 0.30 on their own factor and lower on the remaining factors, were retained. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed over the survival items in the validation sample in order to select the best 10 items for each scale. This short version (named ZKPQ-50-CC) presents psychometric properties strongly similar to the original version in the four countries. Moreover, the factor structure are near equivalent across the four countries since the congruence indices were all higher than 0.90. It is concluded that the ZKPQ-50-CC presented a high cross-language replicability, and it could be an useful questionnaire that may be used for personality research.
Keywords
Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) Zuckerman's Alternative Five Factor personality model, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
Create date
19/11/2007 11:17
Last modification date
20/08/2019 14:38
Usage data