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Cross‐cultural comparison of personality: Norway and England
Author(s) -
EYSENCK SYBIL B. G.,
TAMBS KRISTIAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1990.tb00830.x
Subject(s) - psychoticism , neuroticism , norwegian , psychology , extraversion and introversion , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , personality assessment inventory , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Three hundred and seventy‐seven male and 425 female Norwegian subjects completed the translated Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). Factor comparisons all exceeded 0.97, so that the factors of Psychoticism (P), Extraversion (E), Neuroticism (N) and Social Desirability or Lie Scale (L) can be considered to be identical with those found in England. Sex differences were the usual, i.e. males scored higher that females on P and E but lower on N and L. Cross‐cultural comparisons found no statistical differences between the personality scores of the two countries, except on Neuroticism, with both Norwegian sexes scoring significantly lower than their English counterparts. A slight tendency for Norwegian males to score lower on Social Desirability was detected.