Adjective Check List scales and the five-factor model

Piedmont RL, McCrae RR, Costa PT, Jr. Adjective Check List scales and the five-factor model. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1991;60(4):630-637.

Correlations of Adjective Checklist (ACL) scales with measures of the 5-factor model of personality provide a basis for reinterpreting earlier studies and construing new ACL scales in terms of a common conceptual framework. In Study 1, 414 undergraduate students (264 women, 150 men) completed the ACL, and scales were factored together with O. P. John's (1990) ACL markers of the 5 factors. In Study 2, 445 (198 women, 247 men) adult volunteers from the Augmented Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging completed the ACL. Self-report, spouse, and peer ratings on the NEO Personality Inventory, which measures the 5 factors, were available for subsets of these Ss. When appropriate markers are used, the 5 factors can be recovered from the ACL, although most ACL scales are themselves multifactorial.