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Self‐rating Validation of the Eysenck Personality Inventory
Author(s) -
HARRISON NOBLE W.,
McLAUGHLIN ROBERT J.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1969.tb00585.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , eysenck personality questionnaire , psychology , rating scale , personality assessment inventory , personality , clinical psychology , personality test , psychometrics , test validity , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , social psychology
To further establish the validity of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, 243 general psychology students were administered this test and were then read descriptions of the ‘typical’ introvert, extravert and the ‘typical’ high‐ and low‐anxious person and asked to make a self‐rating on these two dimensions. The self‐ratings and EPI means and standard deviations were found to be equivalent. The subjects dichotomized into introverts and extraverts on the basis of the EPI scores were found to be significantly different on the self‐rating scores. Subjects dichotomized on the basis of self‐ratings into introverts and extraverts also yielded significantly different EPI scores. The same analyses of the Neuroticism dimension resulted in significant differences. The correlations between self‐ratings of Extraversion and this scale on the EPI was 0.72, for the self‐ratings and Neuroticism, 0.56.