英文摘要 |
In order to administrate many scales in a short time and to increase willing of participants to fill in them, a need of short scales is increasing. This study aimed to develop a Chinese translation version of 44-item BFI (Big Five Inventory), named BFI-44, and then to make its shortened version BFI-15 with criteria, such as satisfaction of life, psychological well-being, positive and negative emotion, and self-esteem. Two university student samples were collected in Taiwan. One sample with 730 students data was used to obtain reliability and validity of the translated BFI-44 Chinese version, and to make item selection for BFI-15 with internal consistency reliability, construct validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity. The other sample with 732 students data was used to confirm model-fit of BFI-15 and to offer the other criterion-related validities of BFI-44 and BFI-15. Items in the BFI-15 were selected according to five rules under measurement model of the structural equation model. 3 items in each personality subscale were selected, and totally 15 items were included in the shortened version. The results showed that (1) Correlation coefficients were .80-.90 in the corresponding personality between BFI-44 and BFI-15, indicating BFI-15 a good representative of BFI-44; (2) Good model-fits and good convergent validities with .64- .87 factor loadings except for two items with .44 and .48. Discrimination was also among five personality traits; (3) Correlation patterns for BFI-44 and BFI-15 with criteria were consistent and also similar to past studies; (4) BFI-44 and BFI-15 both had high correlation coefficients with TDA big five personality scale, showing good convergent validities; (5) Internal consistent reliability s were .73-.83 for BFI-44, and .67-.81 for BFI-15. Besides, composite reliabilities were .69-.81 for BFI-15. |