A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality: Israel and England

688 men and 362 women were given the 101-item version of the Adult Eysenck Personality Questionnaire which had been translated into Hebrew. Factor comparisons indicated that identical factors of Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Social Desirability were observed in Israeli data. Reliabilities were satisfactorily high for all factors except Psychoticism which was rather weak. Means showed the usual sex differences, with men scoring higher than women on Psychoticism and Extraversion but lower on Neuroticism and Lie scales. Cross-cultural comparisons of means, computed on reduced scoring keys containing only items in common, indicated that Israeli subjects (both sexes) scored higher than the British ones on Extraversion and Lie scales but lower on Psychoticism and Neuroticism scales.

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CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF PERSONALITY: GREEK CHILDREN AND ENGLISH CHILDREN

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1984.12.1.45 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 45-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Sybil B. G. Eysenck ◽

E.C. Dimitriou

Keyword(s):

Social Desirability ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽

Personality Questionnaire ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

Direct Cross ◽

Cultural Comparisons

The Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 1117 boys and 1199 girls in Greece. Factor comparisons indicated that the dimensions of Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Social Desirability were identical in Greece and in England. Some item changes were required for the scoring key but reliabilities of all factors were satisfactory except Psychoticism which was somewhat weak. Greek norms indicated that boys scored higher than girls on Psychoticism and Extraversion but lower on Neuroticism. Direct cross-cultural comparisons revealed that Greek children scored lower on Psychoticism and Neuroticism than English children, but considerably higher on Social Desirability.

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A cross‐cultural comparison of personality: English and Austrian children

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2410010402 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 215-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Sybil G. Eysenck ◽

Walter Renner

Keyword(s):

Social Desirability ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽

Personality Questionnaire ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Slight Tendency ◽

Personality Differences ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

Direct Cross ◽

Cultural Comparisons

The Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was given to 457 boys and 431 girls in Austria. Factor comparisons indicated that the dimensions of psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism, and social desirability were identical in Austria and in England. Minimal item changes were required to produce a viable Austrian scoring key with satisfactorily high reliabilities for all dimensions except in the case of P for girls, which was somewhat weaker. Austrian norms indicated that boys score higher than girls on P and E but lower on N and L. Direct cross‐cultural comparisons revealed few marked personality differences between Austrian and English children, there being a slight tendency for the former to score higher on psychoticism, extraversion and the lie scale but slightly lower on neuroticism.

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Supplemental Material for The Emergence of Sex Differences in Personality Traits in Early Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional, Cross-Cultural Study

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0038497.supp ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Cultural Study ◽

Early Adolescence ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cross Cultural Study

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Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Personality: The Netherlands and England

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1991.69.3f.1091 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 69 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1091-1096 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

R. Sanderman ◽

S. B. G. Eysenck ◽

W. A. Arrindell

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽

Personality Questionnaire ◽

Dutch Version ◽

Men And Women ◽

Personality Variables ◽

National Differences ◽

Neuroticism Scale

401 men and 475 women completed the Dutch version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Factor comparisons all exceeded 0.97 so that the factors of Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Social Desirability are deemed to be identical in the two countries, England and The Netherlands. Sex differences conform with those in most other cross-cultural studies, namely, men score higher than women on Psychoticism and Extraversion, but lower on Neuroticism and Social Desirability. Reliabilities (alpha coefficients) are satisfactorily high for all factors, although the lowest value (0.62) for the Psychoticism dimension for Dutch men appears somewhat weak. National differences on personality variables were only significant for the Neuroticism scale and Social Desirability; Dutch men and women scored lower on the Neuroticism scale than their English counterparts but higher on Social Desirability.

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