The Cattell 16 PF, a nomothetic personality test, and the Runner Studies of Attitudes, an ideographic personality test, were administered in counterbalanced order to 122 graduate students in education. Intercorrelations among the subtests were computed and then factor analyzed. Six factors extracted were named anxiety, counter-dependence, extroversiveness, control, experimental attitude, and emotional independence. Though conceived in different psychometric frameworks, the two tests share common psychometric components.
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