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Phone: Personality

rh001re-rh010re     Total scores and number of questions answered for the
                    Five-Factor Model of Personality Structure: extraversion,
                    openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and
                    agreeableness.

rh011re-rh020re     Individual questions for the personality scale.
     
NOTE:     Because the unfolding technique was used to ask these questions (see
          flowchart for question format) there are a few cases where someone
          initially answered agree or disagree but in the follow up question
          did not state an intensity of this dis/agreement.  In these cases,
          the response was coded as either "don't know" or "refused" depending
          on the resondent's answer.

NOTE:     The response category "neither agree not disagree" is coded as 0
          for personality items.  In addition, the response category "neither
          agree not disagree" is not counted as an answered question in the
          summary items and does not contribute a value to the summary scores
          (RH001REC-RH010REC).  This differs from coding in the PSYB module.
     
NOTE:     See Appendix G - Cor449.DOC, MEMO114, MEMO091, and MEMO099 
          for references and creation of personality scales.

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