Citation

Van den Broeck J, Bastiaansen L, Rossi G, Dierckx E, Mikolajczak-Degrauwe K, Hofmans J. J. Pers. Assess. 2014; 96(2): 245-251.

Affiliation

a Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Clinical and Lifespan Psychology , Vrije Universiteit Brussels , Belgium.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Society for Personality Assessment, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00223891.2013.840306

PMID

24117012

Abstract

We examined the factorial structure of the Dutch version of the Personality Adjective Checklist (PACL-D) in a Belgian sample of 3,012 community-dwelling adults. Exploratory factor analyses revealed a 5-factor structure (Neurotic, Aggressive/Dominant, Introverted vs. Extraverted, Conscientious, and Cooperative), that showed considerable overlap with 3 of the Big Five factors (i.e., Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness). Moreover, the 5-factor structure closely resembled the structure found in the original American PACL and was equivalent across gender and age.

Language: en