psychTools (version 2.4.3)

spi: A sample from the SAPA Personality Inventory including an item dictionary and scoring keys.

Description

The SPI (SAPA Personality Inventory) is a set of 135 items primarily selected from International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org). This is an example data set collected using SAPA procedures the sapa-project.org web site. This data set includes 10 demographic variables as well. The data set with 4000 observations on 145 variables may be used for examples in scale construction and validation, as well as empirical scale construction to predict multiple criteria.

Usage

data("spi")
data(spi.dictionary)
data(spi.keys)

Format

A data frame with 4000 observations on the following 145 variables. (The q numbers are the SAPA item numbers).

age

Age in years from 11 -90

sex

Reported biological sex (coded by X chromosones => 1=Male, 2 = Female)

health

Self rated health 1-5: poor, fair, good, very good, excellent

p1edu

Parent 1 education

p2edu

Parent 2 education

education

Respondents education: less than 12, HS grad, current univ, some univ, associate degree, college degree, in grad/prof, grad/prof degree

wellness

Self rated "wellnes" 1-2

exer

Frequency of exercise: very rarely, < 1/month, < 1/wk, 1 or 2 times/week, 3-5/wk, > 5 times/week

smoke

never, not last year, < 1/month, <1/week, 1-3 days/week, most days, up to 5 x /day, up to 20 x /day, > 20x/day

ER

Emergency room visits none, 1x, 2x, 3 or more times

q_253

see the spi.dictionary for these items (q_253

q_1328

see the dictionary for all items q_1328)

Details

Using the data contributed by about 125,000 visitors to the https://www.SAPA-project.org/ website, David Condon has developed a hierarchical framework for assessing personality at two levels. The higher level has the familiar five factors that have been studied extensively in personality research since the 1980s -- Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, and Extraversion. The lower level has 27 factors that are considerably more narrow. These were derived based on administrations of about 700 public-domain IPIP items to 3 large samples. Condon describes these scales as being "empirically-derived" because relatively little theory was used to select the number of factors in the hierarchy and the items in the scale for each factor (to be clear, he means relatively little personality theory though he relied on quite a lot of sampling and statistical theory). You can read all about the procedures used to develop this framework in his book/manual. If you would like to reproduce these analyses, you can download the data files from Dataverse (links are also provided in the manual) and compile this script in R (he used knitR). Instructions are provided in the Preface to the manual.

The content of the spi items may be seen by examining the spi.dictionary. Included in the dictionary are the item_id number from the SAPA project, the wording of the item, the source of the item, which Big 5 scale the item marks, and which "Little 27" scale the item marks.

This small subset of the data is provided for demonstration purposes.

References

Condon, D. (2017) The SAPA Personality Inventory: An empirically-derived, hierarchically-organized self-report personality assessment model (https://psyarxiv.com/sc4p9/)

An analysis using the spi data set and various tools from the psych package may be found at

Revelle, Dworak and Condon, (2021) Exploring the persome: the power of the item in understanding personality structure. Personality and Individual Differences, 169, 1. Doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.109905.

Examples

data(spi)
data(spi.dictionary)
psych::bestScales(spi, criteria="health",dictionary=spi.dictionary)

sc <- psych::scoreVeryFast(spi.keys,spi) #much faster scoring for just scores
sc <- psych::scoreOverlap(spi.keys,spi)  #gives the alpha reliabilities and various stats 
      #these are corrected for overlap
psych::corPlot(sc$corrected,numbers=TRUE,cex=.4,xlas=2,min.length=6,
     main="Structure of SPI (Corrected for overlap) disattenuated r above the diagonal)")