ABSTRACT
The battery as a whole is concerned with a wide assortment of variables that are contained in or related to common concepts of the optimal personality. Psychologists have already considered pertinent evidence in the analyses of three questionnaire instruments, but the obvious method for obtaining a more direct answer to their basic question is a factor analysis of the entire battery. On a variety of methodological grounds, the wisdom of factoring the entire battery in its present form is subject to question. In the case, psychologists can hope through factor analysis to increase their understanding of the components of the battery and thus be in a better position to refine them for future use. The productions elicited by Psychologists' six-hour battery surely constitute a sizeable mass of test material, but some researchers would question whether 361 subjects constitute a sufficient sample on which to base an analysis of the 123 variables that were ultimately factored.
