extra_cat {catSurv}

Extraversion Cat Object

Description

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

Usage

data(extra_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 (-.367) and a standard deviation (1.3) 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...

q83

Feel comfortable around people.

q10

Make friends easily.

q73

Am skilled in handling social situations.

q63

Am the life of the party.

q53

Know how to captivate people.

q93

Start conversations.

q33

Warm up quickly to others.

q43

Talk to a lot of different people at parties.

q3

Don't mind being the center of attention.

q23

Cheer people up.

q39

Have little to say.

q14

Keep in the background.

q89

Would describe my experiences as somewhat dull.

q59

Don't like to draw attention to myself.

q29

Don't talk a lot.

q18

Avoid contacts with others.

q99

Am hard to get to know.

q79

Retreat from others.

q69

Find it difficult to approach others.

q49

Keep others at a distance.

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