Two personality measures of differing conceptual framework were statistically analyzed for their psychometric association. Three factors were identified as common to the two instruments. Those factors seem to reflect characteristics of the three psychic structures of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the context within which the two instruments were developed.
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