Psychometric properties and comparison of different techniques for factor analysis on the Big Five Inventory from a Flemish sample

In this paper we examine the Dutch language version of the Big Five Inventory, a short questionnaire used to measure the Big Five personality factors, on a Flemish sample coming from the Divorce in Flanders study. Our aim is twofold. First, we show that based on the Flemish sample the Dutch BFI has good psychometric properties and a clear factor structure comparable to a previous Dutch sample and in the international Big Five research literature. Second, we compare the usual method of analysis, namely factor analysis with principal component extraction with varimax rotation, to several methods... Mehr ...