ВАЛИДНОСТ И ФАКТОРНА СТРУКТУРА НА ТЕМПЕРАМЕНТОВИЯ И ХАРАКТЕРОВИЯ ВЪПРОСНИК (TCI) ПРИ БЪЛГАРСКАТА ПОПУЛАЦИЯ
VALIDITY AND FACTOR STRUCTURE IN TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER INVENTARY (TCI) IN BULGARIAN POPULATION

Summary/Abstract: This research aims at studying both internal validity and factor structure of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) in its Bulgarian version. TCI consists of forced-choice items. It is invented as a result of Cloninger's biosocial model and should be completed personally. TCI is translated into Bulgarian language and has been applied to a sample of 843 respondents, representative of the healthy Bulgarian population (over 15 years old). Internal validity is studied by means of Cronbach's а-coefficient. Cloninger's model subsumes 7 dimensions. In order to determine to what extent this model is adapted to the Bulgarian population factor analysis by oblique rotation is performed. In addition cluster analysis is carried out in order to determine how the separate scales group together. Almost all of the scales and subscales show high internal consistency, corresponding to the most results published in other countries. Mean values and standard deviations obtained are also similar to the ones already published. In the Bulgarian sample the studied factor structure consists of 7 dimensions: 4 of temperament and 3 of character. This structure reveals a behaviour similar to the one described by Cloninger in the American population.

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