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A STUDY OF DIFFICULTIES IN READING AND UNDERSTANDING THE JUNIOR EYSENCK PERSONALITY INVENTORY
Author(s) -
COOKSON D.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1970.tb02092.x
Subject(s) - eysenck personality questionnaire , psychology , neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , reading (process) , personality , developmental psychology , reading comprehension , comprehension , personality assessment inventory , big five personality traits , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
S ummary . An investigation of a group of fourth‐year junior children confirmed that some of them have difficulty in reading and understanding a number of items of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory. The findings were that a Reading Age in the region of 8 to 8 1/2 years is probably necessary for reading the inventory, that duller children tend to understand fewer items than brighter children, and that some items are more frequently misunderstood than others. A second investigation failed to support the hypothesis that difficulties in reading and comprehension are associated with differences between the mean scores of dull and average boys on the Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie Scales.