consc_cat {catSurv}

Conscientiousness Cat Object

Description

Cat object containing item parameters for graded response model fit with responses to the 20-item Conscientiousness dimension of the 100-item IPIP representation of Costa and McCrae's Five Factor Model

Usage

data(consc_cat)

Format

An object of class Cat of length 1.

Details

Cat object containing item parameters for graded response model fit with 774,410 response profiles by myPersonality Project and 1500 response profiles collected by YouGov in June 2018. The sample from myPersonality Project was a convenience sample, and the respondents from YouGov were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race, and education.

See Cat-class for details regarding the Cat object structure. See grmCat for details regarding the graded response model.

A normal prior was chosen with mean from the theta estimates from the YouGov sample (.455) and a standard deviation (1.5) wide enough to envelope the range of estimated theta values across both samples.

Note that due to how the item parameters were estimated, large, positive values indicate "more" of the latent trait.

Response options are 1=Very inaccurate; 2=Moderately inaccurate; 3=Neither inaccurate nor accurate; 4=Moderately accurate; 5=Very accurate.

The wording of the question items:

I...

q15

Am always prepared.

q85

Pay attention to details.

q75

Get chores done right away.

q95

Carry out my plans.

q55

Make plans and stick to them.

q5

Complete tasks successfully.

q25

Do things according to a plan.

q45

Am exacting in my work.

q65

Finish what I start.

q35

Follow through with my plans.

q28

Waste my time.

q88

Find it difficult to get down to work.

q98

Do just enough work to get by.

q78

Don't see things through.

q20

Shirk my duties.

q38

Mess things up.

q58

Leave things unfinished.

q48

Don't put my mind on the task at hand.

q68

Make a mess of things.

q8

Need a push to get started.

Source

See https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/pdsl for the raw YouGov and/or Qualtrics data.

References

Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI): Professional manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.

Stillwell, David, and Michal Kosinski. 2007. "myPersonality Project." https://sites.google.com/michalkosinski.com/mypersonality

See Also

Cat-class, grmCat