Citation

Strahan RF, Mercier CR, Mercier JM, O'Boyle MW. Percept. Mot. Skills 1997; 85(2): 747-755.

Affiliation

Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA. rstrahan@iastate.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9347566

Abstract

This paper reports the factor structure of a 37-item personality questionnaire intended to be predictive of driving performance in elderly persons. Subjects were 191 persons 63 years of age of older, about half of whom also were given perceptual/cognitive tasks and drove on a closed driving course. Although the personality questionnaire did not predict driving skill, the factor structure of the questionnaire is of interest. Of several factor analyses, the most satisfactory was a 2-factor solution. We interpreted the approximately orthogonal factors as measuring what we labeled Competence and Emotionality.

Language: en