CPAI537 is part of a big survey study on martial satisfaction (Luo et al., 2008). The participants were 537 urban Chinese couples in the first year of their marriage. Included here are 28 composite scores of the CPAI (Cheung et al., 1996) for the 537 wives.
data(CPAI537)The format is a n by p matrix, where n is the number of participants (537) and p is the number of manifest variables (28).
The column names stand for the following variable names: Nov - Novelty Div - Diversity Dit - Diverse thinking LEA - Leadership L_A - Logical orientation vs affective orientation AES - Aesthetics E_I - Extroversion-Introversion ENT - Enterprise RES - Responsibility EMO - Emotionality I_S - Inferiority vs. self-acceptance PRA - Practical mindedness O_P - Optimistic vs. pessimistic MET - Meticulousness FAC - Face I_E - Internal control vs. external control FAM - Family orientation DEF - Defensiveness G_M - Graciousness vs. meanness INT - Interpersonal tolerance S_S - Self orientation vs. social orientation V_S - Veraciousness vs. slickness T_M - Traditionalism vs. modernity REN - Relationship orientation SOC - Social sensitivity DIS - Discipline HAR - Harmony T_E - Thrift vs. extravagance
Cheung, F. M., Leung, K., Fan, R., Song, W., Zhang, J., & Zhang, J. (1996). Development of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 27 ,181-199.
Luo, S., Chen, H., Yue, G., Zhang, G., Zhaoyang, R., & Xu, D. (2008). Predicting marital satisfaction from self, partner, and couple characteristics: Is it me, you, or us? Journal of Personality, 76 ,1231-1266.