ABSTRACT

Raymond Cattell has probably dealt with a far greater assortment of variables than any other personality theorist or researcher. In recognition of the assumptions, some researchers have advocated supplementing R-technique analyses with P-technique. When psychologists speak of the ideal goal and of stages leading to it, psychologists are concerned with variables and events that affect almost everything the individual does or feels. If psychologists could abstract from a large number of persons only the features that they have in common, psychologists would be confronted by a common organization containing an extremely elaborate pattern of interdependencies. Practically speaking, the personality sphere is the entire range of gross behavioral characteristics in terms of which psychologists can describe individuals and distinguish them from one another. Psychologists usually talk about people and differentiate between them in terms of things that would be easily perceived by any observer in the course of time.