Magaro P A, Smith P
J Clin Psychol. 1981 Oct;37(4):796-809. doi: 10.1002/1097-4679(198110)37:4<796::aid-jclp2270370419>3.0.co;2-m.
Studied the development of a theory of multivariate personality styles that are considered to correspond to the character of specific diagnostic types. Theoretical descriptions of the personality styles of the hysteric, compulsive, character disorder, manic, and depressive were operationalized by predicting specific combinations of personality dimensions measured by previously validated personality measures. A test battery composed of scales hypothesized to operationalize these characteristics was administered to samples of male and female college students (N = 95). A short scale, the Multivariate Personality Inventory, was devised to measure these styles and was found to be reliable and to exhibit concurrent validity with the full test battery. A cluster analysis methodology isolated clusters of males and females who corresponded to the predicted profiles of the hypothesized personality styles. Strongest support was found for the female hysteric, the male and female compulsive, the female character disorder, and the male manic personality style.
研究了一种多变量人格类型理论的发展，这些人格类型被认为与特定诊断类型的特征相对应。通过预测由先前验证的人格测量工具所测量的人格维度的特定组合，对癔症、强迫性、人格障碍、躁狂和抑郁的人格类型进行了理论描述。由假设用于操作化这些特征的量表组成的测试组被施用于男女大学生样本（N = 95）。设计了一个简短的量表，即多变量人格量表，来测量这些类型，发现它是可靠的，并且与完整测试组具有同时效度。聚类分析方法分离出了与假设人格类型的预测概况相对应的男性和女性群体。对女性癔症、男性和女性强迫性、女性人格障碍和男性躁狂人格类型获得了最强有力的支持。
