Is the Neuroticism Scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory contaminated by response bias?

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 743-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J McKelvie
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Neuroticism Scale

A STUDY OF A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Stones
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Construct System

An empirically oriented study of a pathological liar is described. It was hypothesized that such an individual might be characterized by a construct system that is atypically loose over a wide range of conventional, socially relevant constructs. Evidence consistent with this hypothesis was obtained from the Thought Disorder Grid (TDG) and by a marked response bias on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI). However, a conventional Repertory Grid (administered twice) yielded scores to indicate that construing was tight over a limited range of idiosyncratic, socially relevant constructs. It was concluded that the individual's understanding of his social environment was generally unreliable and this might be a factor to account for the lying behavior.

Relationship of Ordinal Position and Sex to Neuroticism in Adults

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Sutton ◽  
Walter G. McIntire
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Neuroticism Scale ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study focused on the relationship between birth order, sex, and levels of adjustment of 120 male and 233 female adult college students (primarily graduate students). Subjects were approached in classes and asked to complete the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a personal data questionnaire. They were assigned to one of the three groups on the basis of their scores on the Neuroticism scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. A significant relationship between sex and ordinal position was found. Onlyborn males and firstborn females were overrepresented in the high neurotic group. In this same group, firstborn males and middle females were underrepresented. The distribution by sex and ordinal position in the average and low neuroticism groups was not different from chance. The present study supports the concept that there are birth-order differences with respect to sex and neuroticism.

Neuroticism and Extraversion of Female Homosexuals

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 559-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Lee Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Neuroticism Scale ◽  
Sex Object

Analysis of whether differing sex-object choices by 46 female heterosexuals and 46 female homosexuals are associated with significant differences in scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory indicated heterosexual women were higher on the Neuroticism scale. No differences were found on the Lie or Introversion/Extraversion scales. Neither group scored above or below what is considered to be normal T-ranges of 30 to 70 on any scale.

Correlation Between the Rorschach Test Coded and Interpreted According to the Comprehensive Exner System and the Eysenck Personality Inventory

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella De Carolis ◽  
Stefano Ferracuti
Keyword(s):  
Human Movement ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Weighted Sum ◽  
Rorschach Test ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Color Response ◽  
Exner Comprehensive System ◽  
Neuroticism Scale ◽  
Rorschach Variables

The relationships between the Rorschach test and the self-reported personality questionnaires are an important and unresolved issue in confirming structural and clinical hypotheses. In a sample of healthy volunteers (n = 47) we conducted a study to investigate the correlation between the Italian version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck Personality Inventory, EPI) and some selected Rorschach variables defined according to the Exner Comprehensive System. The results showed that the Extroversion Scale of the EPI corresponds with the calculated difference between the Human Movement responses and the Weighted Sum of the Color response (M-WSumC, r = –.42, p < .01), the Weighted Sum of Color responses (WSumC, r = .40, p < .01) as a single variable, and the Sum of Shading responses (SumShd, r = .29, p < .05), but had no relationship with the Human Movement responses. None of the hypothesized Rorschach variables showed a significant correlation with the Neuroticism scale of the EPI. Furthermore, the Psychoticism scale of the EPI was negatively correlated with the Rorschach index Zsum (r –.33, p < .05). Finally, the comparison between the subgroups defined by the Erlebnistypus categories showed that Rorschach Extratensive subjects scored higher on the Extroversion scale of the EPI than Introversive (Mann-Whitney U = 30.5, p < .01) or Ambitent subjects (Mann-Whitney U = 76, p < .01). These results indicate that Rorschach’s concept of Erlebnistypus as a holistic dimension and Eysenck’s construct of Extroversion-Introversion are sufficiently homogeneous for psychometric assessment, but the single determinants of Rorschach responses have no correspondence with the EPI scores.

Depression und Biografie

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 267-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. König ◽  
K.-E. Bühler
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Apperception Test ◽  
Klinische Studie ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Thematic Apperception ◽  
Gesunde Probanden

ZusammenfassungIn der vorliegenden Untersuchung kamen zwei Persönlichkeitsfragebögen, das Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) und der Biografische Fragebogen für Alkoholabhängige (BIFA-AL). sowie ein Persönlichkeitstest, der Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), zur Anwendung. Insgesamt umfasste die klinische Studie 88 Versuchspersonen: 44 depressive Patienten und 44 in Bezug auf Alter, Geschlecht und Schulbildung parallelisierte gesunde Probanden. Die Ergebnisse des TAT zeigen, dass sich die Patienten in ihren Fantasiegeschichten von ihrer depressiven Einstellungen lösen. Die Bildtafeln scheinen die Patienten zu animieren, ihre passive und negative Einstellungen aufzugeben und in ihren Fantasiegeschichten aktiv und positiv eingestellt in das Geschehen einzugreifen. In ihren Fantasiegeschichten leben sie das aus, was sie im normalen depressiven Leben nicht verwirklichen können, und verhalten sich so, wie sie gerne in Wirklichkeit wären. In den beiden Persönlichkeitsfragebögen konnten deutliche Unterschiede (höherer Neurotizismus, niedrigere Extraversion) zwischen den beiden Stichproben festgestellt werden. In der Skala „Zielgerichtetheit” des BIFA-AL erzielten die Patienten deutlich niedrigere Werte als die gesunden Probanden. Die Patienten erreichten ferner ungünstigere Werte hinsichtlich der Primärsozialisation. Sie schildern ihre Primärsozialisation deutlich ungünstiger und belastender. Vorschläge hinsichtlich psychotherapeutischer Folgerungen aus diesen Befunden werden unterbreitet.

Validity and Reliability of the Eysenck Personality Inventory with Outpatients

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Gabrys
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Community Mental Health Center ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Reliability Study ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory

A validity and reliability study of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Form A and Form B, is reported for 274 females and 303 male outpatients attending a community mental health center. Findings were similar to those published for randomized samples. The present study helped to sustain interest in the inventory as a research tool with psychological outpatients.

Eysenck Personality Inventory as a Mood Test with Manic-Depressive Patients

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 947-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Platman ◽  
R. Plutchik
Keyword(s):  
Normal State ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Manic State ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Depressive Patients

The Eysenck Personality Inventory was used as a mood indicator instead of as a trait test with a group of manic-depressive patients associated with a research ward. Some patients completed the EPI while in a normal state, some while in a depressed or manic state, and some in two or more clinically defined states. Results showed that depression was associated with a significant decrease in extraversion and a significant increase in neuroticism. The manic state however, was not clearly differentiated from the normal one. It appears that the inventory may be a useful indicator of depressive mood.

Habitual Participation in Exercise and Personality

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 978-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Szabo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Exercising Women

Two personality characteristics of 21 habitually exercising and 14 nonexercising college students were compared by using the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The former scored higher on Extraversion than the latter. Both groups of men ( ns = 9 and 6), as well as 12 exercising women, scored lower on Neuroticism than 8 nonexercising women.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QIGONG MEDITATION AND PERSONALITY

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Leung ◽  
Anthony Singhal
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Option ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Viable Treatment

Qigong meditation is an ancient form of meditation that has been linked with various health benefits. We were interested in whether or not this form of meditation has a relationship with personality. To this end, we administered the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) to eighty Qigong meditation practitioners and seventy-four non-practitioners. The results showed that the number of years of Qigong practice was negatively correlated with neuroticism, but there was no relationship with extraversion. Even after controlling for age, gender, and education level, the practitioners were significantly less neurotic than the nonpractitioners. The study of Qigong meditation and personality may lead to a greater understanding of the various disorders characterized by high neuroticism, and may provide a viable treatment option for long-term health.

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