Abstract
The scores of 700 Afrikaans-speaking university students on the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality
Factor Questionnaire were subjected to an inter-battery factor analysis. This technique uses only the correlations
between two sets of variables and reveals only the factors that they have in common. Three of the Big Five personality factors were revealed, namely Extroversion, Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. However, the Conscientiousness factor contained a relatively strong unsocialised component and in this regard it is similar to Eysenck’s
Psychoticism factor.The results support the construct validity of the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. Implications for personality questionnaire design and validation are discussed.