ABSTRACT
General Beliefs were administered not only to the battery sample but too many additional subjects drawn from several psychology classes. Like the factors of the Experience Inventory and the Personal Opinion Survey, these are arranged in order of decreasing variance. As in the other factored questionnaires, the factors near the beginning of the list are the ones best represented by substantial numbers of items, the ones most readily interpretable, and the ones most likely to prove replicable in future studies. Psychologists must proceed with caution for some of the highest correlations may depend on the presence of the same or a related response bias in other instruments. In any large-scale multivariate study of personality, it is wise to include some measures that will provide a bridge to the findings of earlier research. The main instrument selected for this purpose was Form C of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.
