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A Study of the Reliability Implications of Lie Scores in the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory
Author(s) -
ORWIN WILLIAM
Publication year - 1971
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.2044-8260.1971.tb00745.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , eysenck personality questionnaire , psychology , internal consistency , reliability (semiconductor) , clinical psychology , test (biology) , personality , consistency (knowledge bases) , developmental psychology , psychometrics , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , mathematics , power (physics) , paleontology , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , biology
Two groups of 8‐year‐old children were each administered the JEPI on two occasions, using the headmaster of their school and the present author as test administrators. When tested by the headmaster the boys recorded significantly higher Neuroticism scores and significantly lower Lie scores; the girls' scores did not differ between testers. Three different tests of the reliability and consistency of the boys' N scores each failed to support predictions arising from the assumption that low L scores are associated with more reliable or more consistent N scores.