Psychometric Properties of the Short Form of Goldberg’s 50- Item Personality Scale

Subject Areas : Tectonostratigraphy

F. KH ¹ (دکترای روانشناسی تربیتی، استادیار دانشگاه شیراز.)
A. فرمانی ² (دانشجوی دکترای تخصصی روانشناسی، دانشگاه پیام نور تهران.)

Received: 2014-05-29 Published : 2014-08-23

Keywords: validity, Reliability, The Big Five Factors Of Personality, The Short Form Of Goldberg’s 50-Item Personality Scale,

Abstract :

Theaim of the present study was to develop the short form of Goldberg’s 50-item personality scale and to examine the psychometric properties of it among university students. Five hundred university students studying at Shiraz University were recruited using random cluster sampling method. To examine the validity of the instrument, factor analysis was used. Moreover, in order to yield the reliability of the instrument Chronbach alpha was utilized. The results of the factor analysis yielded five-factor structure. Chronbach alpha coefficients of the Big Five factors of personality ranged from 0.69 to 0.83. It was concluded that the short form of Goldberg’s 50-item personality scale is a self-report instrument that is applied in research works and has good validity and reliability in Iranian population.