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Published in final edited form as: J Res Pers. 2008 Feb;42(1):96–132. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.04.006

Table 3.

Psychometric Properties of Personality Dimensions Based on Adjectives in Open-Ended Self-Descriptions

Factors	Mean Word Usage	SD	Percent > 0	Crosss-essay reliability
Sociability	.27	.36	66.2	.10^***
Evaluation	.31	.55	68.0	.09^**
Negativity	.65	.56	89.5	.11^***
Self-Acceptance	.53	.61	84.1	.09^***
Fitting In	.54	.61	84.0	.06
Psychological Stability	.21	.27	62.3	.11^***
Maturity	.24	.32	67.0	.09^**

Note. Mean Usage reflects the mean percentage of words in a given text that load onto a personality dimension. SD = standard deviation. Percent > 0 = percentage of people who use words in a given personality dimension. Cross-essay reliability = Pearson correlation between personality dimension word use in self-descriptions and in stream of consciousness essays written two months earlier

^***

p ≤ .001

^**

p ≤ .01

⁺

p =.06.