open_cat {catSurv}

Openness to Experience Cat Object

Description

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

Usage

data(open_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 (-.674) and a standard deviation (1.2) 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...

q91

Believe in the importance of art.

q1

Have a vivid imagination.

q51

Tend to vote for liberal political candidates.

q41

Carry the conversation to a higher level.

q61

Enjoy hearing new ideas.

q31

Enjoy thinking about things.

q21

Can say things beautifully.

q16

Enjoy wild flights of fantasy.

q81

Get excited by new ideas.

q71

Have a rich vocabulary.

q24

Am not interested in abstract ideas.

q74

Do not like art.

q7

Avoid philosophical discussions.

q34

Do not enjoy going to art museums.

q44

Tend to vote for conservative political candidates.

q4

Do not like poetry.

q94

Rarely look for a deeper meaning in things.

q84

Believe that too much tax money goes to support artists.

q54

Am not interested in theoretical discussions.

q64

Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas.

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