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THE JUNIOR EYSENCK PERSONALITY INVENTORY AND TEACHER' RATINGS: AN INVESTIGATION OF UNEXPECTED RESULTS
Author(s) -
COOKSON D.
Publication year - 1973
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.2044-8279.1973.tb00737.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , eysenck personality questionnaire , developmental psychology , personality , rating scale , scale (ratio) , correlation , social psychology , clinical psychology , big five personality traits , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
S ummary . Eysenck and Cookson (1969) unexpectedly found a low positive correlation between JEPI Extraversion and rated emotional stability. A negative correlation would have been more in line with expectation. It was hypothesised that the unexpected results were due to the nature of the rating scale used. To test this hypothesis 645 11‐year‐old children were rated for emotional stability by their teachers on a new scale, and a further 677 children were rated by their teachers on the original scale. Both sets of ratings were correlated with Extraversion. The hypothesis was not supported. The paper concludes with a discussion aimed at underlining, and to some extent explaining, differences between teachers' ratings and questionnaire responses in the sphere of emotional stability‐instability.