Abstract

SAMPER LUCENA, E.  and  ROBLES SANCHEZ, J.I.. Exploratory factor analysis of a personality test in emergency military unit. Sanid. Mil. [online]. 2014, vol.70, n.4, pp.256-262. ISSN 1887-8571.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1887-85712014000400003.

The article presents a study factorial exploratory of a test of personality that is in use in the Military Unit of Emergencies. It is realized on a sample of 1661 Military men. The study has been realized in four typical phases: The calculation of a counterfoil capable of expressing the joint variability of all the variables, the extraction of the ideal number of factors, the rotation of the solution to facilitate his interpretation and the estimation of the new punctuations. The obtained results show two principal factors of personality, the first factor has named him "emotionally", agglutinates the variables of depression, neuroticism and psychoticism of the test, the second factor has named him "socially" and contains the variables of psychopaty and sociableness of the test, in both cases the indexes of explained variance are improvable and the index of fallibility of the test was very low. The test has showed ecological validity in his utilization in the Unit nevertheless it is a necessary mas studies to manage to evaluate the personal features of the most precise, useful and current form, managing to realize better behavioral predictions and in last instance to improve the operability of the Units.

Keywords : psychological assessment; personality; factor analysis.

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