Development of a Chinese version of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire: Reliabilities and gender/age effects

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Yi-Xiao Wu
Wei Wang
Wu-Ying Du
Jing Li
Xiao-Feng Jiang
Ye-Han Wang
Cite this article:  Wu, Y., Wang, W., Du, W., Li, J., Jiang, X., & Wang, Y. (2000). Development of a Chinese version of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire: Reliabilities and gender/age effects. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 28(3), 241-250.


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A 5-factor model of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) was tried in a Chinese speaking area. A total of 333 healthy participants (217 women and 116 men) with a wide range of occupations attended this study and were divided into 5 age ranges. They were free of depression and answered with low dissimulation in ZKPQ. The principal component analysis detected 16 factors with eigenvalues larger than 1.5, the first 5 of which accounted for 21.0% of the variance. The 5-factor solution analysis was, therefore, performed. The alpha internal reliabilities of the 5 personality scales ranged from 0.61 to 0.81. Sixty-one out of 89 items loaded larger than, or equal to, 0.3 on target factors. Scale scores were comparable to those reported in the United States, and the intercorrelations between 5 personality scales were lower. Gender and education level had little effect on the personality measures; the Impulsive Sensation Seeking declined with age only from 20 years on, in women. This study demonstrates the validity of the ZKPQ in Chinese culture.

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