For subsequent analyses, the eight scales were combined to form agency and communal vector scores (Ojanen et al., 2005; originally provided by Wiggins, Phillips, & Trapnell, 1989): Agenticvect = agentic – submissive + [.707 × (agentic and communal + agentic and separate – submissive and communal – submissive and separate)].Communalvect = communal – separate + [.707 × (agentic and communal + submissive and communal – agentic and separate – submissive and separate)]. The circumplex model suggests that the two vector scores should form two orthogonal dimensions (Locke, 2000; Ojanen et al., 2005; Wiggins et al., 1989), and the bivariate correlations for vector scores in our sample were consistent with this expectation (r = −.08, ns).
