Evaluating the Five-Factor Model of the personality: Confirmatory factor analysis of the revised NEO Personality Inventory

The present paper briefly reviews the different confirmatory factor analysis methods and factor analytic evaluation of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) based on the Five Factor Model (FFM). The utility of orthogonal and oblique procrustes rotation of the varimaxed principal component to hypothesised binary target matrix and multiple group factor analysis has been tested on the empirical data of to 214 subjects with equal gender representation. These methods clearly recovered the five factor structure does showing the robustness of the FFM.

Lodhi, P. H., Deo, S., & Belhekar, V. M. (2004). Evaluating the Five-Factor Model of the personality: Confirmatory factor analysis of the revised NEO Personality Inventory. Journal of Psychological Research: An International Journal, 48, 17-24