Appendix F.
Text-based Person-Descriptive Factors: A Varimax-Rotated Principal-Components Analysis on the First Half of Self-Descriptive Essays
| Person Descriptive Factors | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | Factor 4 | Factor 5 | Factor 6 | Factor 7 | Factor 8 | Factor 9 | |||||||||
| Appearance | Sociability | Relationships | Education | Ambition | Daily Activities | Religion | Education II | Reflection Interests | |||||||||
| Hair | .65 | Think | .42 | Mom | .40 | School | .45 | Goal | .42 | Test | .43 | God | .37 | Reflect | .26 | Music | .30 |
| Eye | .62 | Friend | .40 | Family | .39 | High | .41 | Success | .33 | Psychology | .36 | Love | .35 | Aware | .22 | Play | .29 |
| Brown | .52 | Know | .37 | Born | .38 | College | .39 | Future | .29 | Week | .34 | Handle | .28 | Perfect | .21 | Athletic | .25 |
| Nose | .48 | Perceive | .36 | Sister | .37 | Change | .35 | College | .27 | Sleep | .32 | Christian | .28 | Face | .21 | Interest | .24 |
| Face | .43 | Like | .35 | Brother | .37 | Older | .32 | Life | .26 | Tire | .32 | Relation | .27 | Fairly | .21 | ||
| Dark | .41 | Feel | .35 | Dad | .36 | Grow | .31 | Achieve | .25 | Class | .30 | Drink | .24 | School | −.29 | Values | .20 |
| Skin | .38 | Shy | .28 | Texas | .35 | Junior | .29 | Hope | .25 | Study | .30 | Issues | .24 | University | −.26 | ||
| Eyebrows | .38 | Talk | .27 | Child | .33 | Start | .26 | Want | .25 | Minute | 27 | Faith | .23 | Texas | −.25 | Mirror | −.36 |
| Teeth | .36 | Tell | .27 | Daughter | .33 | Mature | .25 | Dream | .24 | Read | .27 | Help | .23 | Pretty | −.25 | Looked | −.35 |
| Blue | .36 | Insecure | .26 | Raise | .31 | Experience | .24 | School | .24 | Write | .26 | Strong | .23 | Fun | −.24 | Sees | −.31 |
| Color | .36 | Good | .26 | Love | .30 | Grade | .24 | Accomplish | .23 | Hours | .26 | Church | .23 | Guy | −.24 | Tired | −.23 |
| White | .35 | Want | .26 | Parent | .29 | Month | .23 | Work | .22 | Semester | .25 | Heart | .21 | College | −.23 | Happy | −.22 |
| Green | .34 | Judge | .25 | Marry | .29 | Senior | .23 | Class | .22 | Sit | .24 | Control | .21 | High | −.22 | Face | −.22 |
| Wear | .33 | Quiet | .25 | Wife | .27 | Job | .22 | High | .22 | Room | .23 | Student | −.22 | Smile | −.22 | ||
| Thin | .32 | Outgoing | .24 | House | .27 | Early | .22 | Business | .21 | Night | .23 | Mirror | −.22 | Austin | −22 | Sad | −.21 |
| Smile | .32 | Different | .23 | University | .26 | Age | .21 | Career | .21 | Assignment | .22 | Fat | −.22 | ||||
| Black | .31 | Meet | .23 | Husband | .26 | Different | .20 | Body | .21 | Wait | .21 | ||||||
| Features | .29 | Time | .22 | Elementary | .25 | Set | .20 | Point | .21 | ||||||||
| Blonde | .27 | Reserved | .22 | Education | .25 | Love | −.22 | Hard | .20 | Pass | .20 | ||||||
| Look | .27 | Group | .21 | Young | .22 | Thanksgiving | .20 | ||||||||||
| Tall | .26 | Guess | .21 | Taught | .21 | ||||||||||||
| Beauty | .26 | Open | .21 | Student | .21 | ||||||||||||
| Weight | .25 | Hard | .21 | ||||||||||||||
| Short | .25 | Stupid | .21 | Weight | −.22 | ||||||||||||
| Mouth | .24 | Fun | .21 | ||||||||||||||
| Fat | .24 | Pretty | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Physical | .23 | Nice | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Appearance | .23 | Care | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Body | .22 | Flaw | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Makeup | .22 | Comfort | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Small | .21 | Bother | .20 | ||||||||||||||
| Skinny | .20 | ||||||||||||||||
| Light | .20 | Blue | −.22 | ||||||||||||||
| Attractive | .20 | ||||||||||||||||
| Red | .20 | ||||||||||||||||
| Life | −.21 | ||||||||||||||||
Note. The above words were the most frequently used content words in open-ended self-descriptions of personality that loaded greater than .20 in a factor analysis of their use in the first half of self-descriptive essays.