Development and Validation of a Personality Assessment Instrument for Traditional Korean Medicine: Sasang Personality Questionnaire
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SPQ subscale, TCI and NEO-PI dimension profile of each Sasang type. (a) SPQ subscale score of each Sasang type. The SPQ subscale profile of the So-Yang, Tae-Eum, and So-Eum types was significantly different (flatness with Wilks Lambda test, ,, and ; parallelism with Wilks Lambda test, ,, and ). The So-Eum type (, , ) scored significantly () lower on the SPQ-B, SPQ-E, and SPQ-C scales than So-Yang types (, , ), respectively. (b) TCI score of each Sasang type. The profile of TCI temperament dimension, such as NS, HA, RD, and P was significantly different (flatness with Greenhouse-Geisser test, ,, and ; parallelism with Greenhouse-Geisser test, ,, and ). So-Eum type (, ) scored significantly lower on NA and higher on HA than So-Yang type (, and ) (, and ), respectively. (c) NEO-PI score of each Sasang type. The profile of NEO-PI was not significantly different. So-Eum type () scored significantly higher on conscientiousness scale than So-Yang type () (). ; **. Whisker represents standard errors. SPQ: Sasang Personality Questionnaire, SPQ-B: SPQ-behavior, SPQ-E: SPQ-emotionality, SPQ-C: SPQ-cognition, TCI: temperament and character inventory, NS: novelty seeking, HA: harm avoidance, RD: reward dependence, P: persistence, SD: self directness, C: cooperativeness, ST: self transcendence, NEO-PI: NEO-personality inventory, N: neuroticism, E: extraversion, O: openness to experience, A: agreeableness, Co: conscientiousness.
