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The Relationship Between Two Children's Measures of Personality
Author(s) -
HARBISON J. J. M.
Publication year - 1970
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.2044-8260.1970.tb00662.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , psychology , neuroticism , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , personality assessment inventory , variance (accounting) , personality test , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , psychometrics , social psychology , test validity , business , accounting
There are, at the moment, two different personality questionnaires adequately standardized on British school children, both of which purport to measure the same personality dimensions of Introversion‐Extraversion and Neuroticism‐Stability. These are the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory (Eysenck, 1965) and the New Junior Maudsley Inventory (Furneaux & Gibson, 1966). Although these measures both assess two similarly named dimensions (or three, if the Lie scales are included) there has been little, if any, work which has examined the relationship between the tests. Forrest & Hoghughi (1968) have noted that the correlation between the Extraversion scales of the JEPI and the NJMI was far from satisfactory, and ‘indicated that only a minor part of the total variance is accounted for by the extraversion element of the scales’. They found, in fact, product‐moment correlations of r = +0.42 between the two E scales, and r = +0.66 for the N scales, using a sample of 87 delinquent boys. As both tests are widely used, it was decided to examine the relationship between them at three age levels with normal children.