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A NOTE ON THE EFFECTS OF ADMINISTRATION CONDITIONS UPON PERSONALITY SCORES IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Nias D. K. B.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1972.tb01125.x
Subject(s) - psychoticism , psychology , respondent , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , anonymity , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , personality test , psychometrics , social psychology , clinical psychology , test validity , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , political science , law , paleontology , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , biology , computer science
SUMMARY This paper raises the problem of respondent anonymity in test administration. A total of 380 children, aged 11 and 12 years, were given a revised version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory that includes a psychoticism scale. An administration condition of anonymity was compared with one in which children were required to give their names. While the results gave no clear differences between the two conditions, the expected differences between boys and girls emerged. The correlations between the scales, and the internal consistency coefficients of the scales, also compared well with those from other versions of the inventory. It is suggested that under normal research conditions, children wilt tend to give honest, or al least consistent, answers to this type of questionnaire.