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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Assess. 2007 Apr;88(2):10.1080/00223890701268082. doi: 10.1080/00223890701268082

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

The same set of personality items may be aggregated into a smaller number of broad, general traits or a greater number of more specific, narrow traits. Often only portions of variance within broad traits (i.e., a specific narrow trait subcomponent) may be relevant to a criterion of interest.