The Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory, Faking, and Social Desirability: A Replication and Extension

1986 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Goldsmith ◽  
Timothy A. Matherly
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Low Correlation

Data from 138 college students showed that responses to the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory are unaffected by social desirability ( r = .03). A subsample of 47 students also completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory Lie scale. The low correlation reported by Kirton for these two instruments was successfully replicated.

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.

Birth Order, Sex of Subject and Sex of Sibling as Factors in Extraversion and Neuroticism in Two-Child Families

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen McCormick ◽  
Daniel J. Baer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory

Using the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Extraversion and Neuroticism scores were obtained for 120 college students from two-child families. When the effects of birth order and sex of S were examined, a significant interaction occurred for Extraversion, with firstborn males and second-born females reporting higher scores. Higher Neuroticism scores occurred for Ss with opposite-sexed siblings than for those with the same-sexed sibling. Results suggest that Extraversion and Neuroticism are influenced by position in the two-child family.

On Confounding of the Repression-Sensitization and Manifest Anxiety Scales

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Method Of Principal Components ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
True False

The MMPI and Edwards Personality Inventory were administered to 218 college students. Scores on the Manifest Anxiety (MA), Repression-Sensitization (R-S), and Social Desirability (SD) scales were scored from the MMPI and a non-overlapping, balanced True-False, non-pathological content social desirability (BSD) scale was scored from the items of the Edwards. The scales were intercorrelated and factor analyzed by the method of principal components. The results support a social desirability interpretation of scores on the four scales, and questioned the discriminant validity of the R-S and MA scales, as have other studies which were briefly reviewed.

Item Validity of the Lie Scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 880-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Sung Wen
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory

Item validity of the nine-item Lie Scale of Eysenck Personality Inventory, Form A, from responses of 640 undergraduates was assessed. The corrected point-biserial correlations indicated that only two items were significantly valid across race and sex. The remaining seven items were valid for either race only or specific race-sex combinations. These results supported the hypothesis that social desirability in personality assessment may vary from one ethnic group to another and from one race-sex combination to another as well.

Correlation of Scores on the Eysenck and Sonso Personality Inventories

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Kentle
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Junior College Students

Correlations of scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory with those of the SONSO Personality Inventory, a test of five factors of personality, were estimated for 300 junior college students. Extraversion and Neuroticism show reasonably close correspondence to the Shyness and Nervousness scales of the SONSO.

Electrodermal Response to Sexual Materials

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Firth ◽  
Norman Worrall
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Electrodermal Response ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Physiological Measure ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory

Four groups of college students selected on the basis of high or low Eysenck Personality Inventory scores were asked to talk or simply think about a series of slides differing in overt sexual content. Data showed that for both conditions those high on Neuroticism ( n = 8) showed more electrodermal activity than did those scoring low ( n = 8), and over all subjects there was a significant correlation between Neuroticism scores and the physiological measure. High and low scorers on Extraversion scale ( ns = 10) showed no analogous differences in electrodermal activity.

Age Differences in Social Desirability

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 825-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuntufye S. Mwamwenda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory

To examine the differences between 162 adolescents' and 118 adults' scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory 64 boys ( M age = 20 yr.), 94 girls ( M age = 18.9 yr.), 78 women ( M age = 29 yr.), and 40 men ( M age = 28.8 yr.) from Umtata and the vicinity in Transkei, South Africa were tested. Adolescents scored higher on social desirability than adults did.

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