psych (version 1.6.6)

epi.bfi: 13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory

Description

A small data set of 5 scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory, 5 from a Big 5 inventory, a Beck Depression Inventory, and State and Trait Anxiety measures. Used for demonstrations of correlations, regressions, graphic displays.

Usage

data(epi.bfi)

Format

A data frame with 231 observations on the following 13 variables.

epiE

EPI Extraversion

epiS

EPI Sociability (a subset of Extraversion items

epiImp

EPI Impulsivity (a subset of Extraversion items

epilie

EPI Lie scale

epiNeur

EPI neuroticism

bfagree

Big 5 inventory (from the IPIP) measure of Agreeableness

bfcon

Big 5 Conscientiousness

bfext

Big 5 Extraversion

bfneur

Big 5 Neuroticism

bfopen

Big 5 Openness

bdi

Beck Depression scale

traitanx

Trait Anxiety

stateanx

State Anxiety

Source

Data were collected at the Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Lab (PMCLab) at Northwestern by William Revelle)

Details

Self report personality scales tend to measure the ``Giant 2" of Extraversion and Neuroticism or the ``Big 5" of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. Here is a small data set from Northwestern University undergraduates with scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and a Big 5 inventory taken from the International Personality Item Pool.

References

http://personality-project.org/pmc.html

Examples

data(epi.bfi)
pairs.panels(epi.bfi[,1:5])
describe(epi.bfi)