Introduction
Methods
Participants
Materials
Type D Personality
Neuroticism and Extroversion
Anxiety
Depression
Negative and Positive Affect
Statistical Analyses
Results
Prevalence of Type D Personality
Structural Validity of the Ukrainian DS14
DS14 items | Factor Ia
| Factor IIa
b
| Corrected item-total correlations | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Negative affectivity | ||||
2 | I often make a fuss about unimportant things |
0.71
| −0.02 | 0.57 |
4 | I often feel unhappy |
0.76
| 0.08 | 0.55 |
5 | I am often irritated |
0.77
| 0.09 | 0.66 |
7 | I take a gloomy view of things |
0.53
| 0.24 | 0.46 |
9 | I am often in a bad mood |
0.76
| 0.30 | 0.73 |
12 | I often found myself worrying about something |
0.74
| 0.17 | 0.66 |
13 | I am often down in the dumps |
0.77
| 0.23 | 0.72 |
Eigenvalue = 5.05 | ||||
Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α) = 0.86 | MICC = .48* | |||
Social inhibition | ||||
1 | I make contact easily when I meet peopleb
†
| 0.04 |
−0.71
| 0.45 |
3 | I often talk to strangers | 0.19 |
−0.46
| 0.20 |
6 | I often feel inhibited in social interactionsb
†
| 0.40 |
0.62
| 0.53 |
8 | I find it hard to start a conversation | 0.28 |
0.69
| 0.57 |
10 | I am a closed kind of person | 0.25 |
0.62
| 0.49 |
11 | I would rather keep other people at a distance | 0.25 |
0.38
| 0.31 |
14 | When socializing, I don’t find the right things to talk about | 0.23 |
0.60
| 0.47 |
Eigenvalue = 1.78 | ||||
Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α) = 0.71 | MICC = 0.27 |
Item | Factor | Estimate | SE |
p value |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | SI | 1.00 | – | – |
2 | NA | 1.00 | – | – |
3 | SI | 0.51 | 0.21 | 0.013 |
4 | NA | 1.09 | 0.14 | <0.001 |
5 | NA | 1.27 | 0.16 | <0.001 |
6 | SI | −1.73 | 0.26 | <0.001 |
7 | NA | 0.87 | 0.13 | <0.001 |
8 | SI | −1.74 | 0.27 | <0.001 |
9 | NA | 1.38 | 0.16 | <0.001 |
10 | SI | −1.27 | 0.21 | <0.001 |
11 | SI | −0.91 | 0.21 | <0.001 |
12 | NA | 1.19 | 0.13 | <0.001 |
13 | NA | 1.35 | 0.16 | <0.001 |
14 | SI | −1.34 | 0.22 | <0.001 |
Cov (NA, SI) | −0.27 | 0.06 | <0.001 | |
Cov (e2, e12) | 0.61 | 0.11 | <0.001 |
Convergent and Divergent Validity
Correlation matrix | Higher-order | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Factor analysisa
| |||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | I | II | ||
1 | DS14: Negative affectivity | – |
0.83
| 0.21 | |||||||
2 | DS14: Social inhibition | 0.45*b
| – | 0.29 |
0.76
| ||||||
3 | EPQ: Neuroticism | 0.71* | 0.32* | – |
0.84
| 0.09 | |||||
4 | EPQ: Extroversion | −0.26* | −0.55* | −0.16* | – | −0.05 |
−0.87
| ||||
5 | STAI: Anxiety | 0.49* | 0.36* | 0.51* | −0.33* | – |
0.63
| 0.38 | |||
6 | BDI: Depression | 0.57* | 0.40* | 0.54* | −0.27* | 0.49* | – |
0.73
| 0.28 | ||
7 | GMS: Negative affect | 0.55** | 0.30* | 0.49* | −0.21* | 0.47* | 0.52* | – |
0.76
| 0.13 | |
8 | GMS: Positive affect | −0.31* | −0.44* | −0.31* | 0.46* | −0.43* | −0.38* | −0.28* | – | −0.26 |
−0.72
|