ABSTRACT
The skepticism of some social-personality psychologists (e.g., Mischel, 1981) about the existence of broad personality traits has been reinforced by the inability of psychologists to agree on either the number or nature of the "basic traits" of personality. H. J. Eysenck (1947, 1967) represents one extreme of trait generality with a parsimonious, theoretically evolved system involving only three basic traits: Extraversion (E), Neuroticism (N), and Psychoticism (P). At the other extreme are Guilford and Zimmerman (1956) and Cattell (1957), with from 14 to 20 inductively developed primary factors.
