National Differences in Personality: Iceland and England
577 men and 567 women were given the 101-item version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, translated into Icelandic. Although some items were inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was suggested and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices...
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crsagepubl:10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3.999 2023-05-15T16:46:11+02:00 National Differences in Personality: Iceland and England Eysenck, Sybil B. G. Haraldsson, Erlendur 1983 http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3.999 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3.999 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Psychological Reports volume 53, issue 3, page 999-1003 ISSN 0033-2941 1558-691X General Psychology journal-article 1983 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3.999 2022-04-14T04:45:09Z 577 men and 567 women were given the 101-item version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, translated into Icelandic. Although some items were inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was suggested and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. Icelandic and British subjects were compared on the personality factors, using reduced scales comprising only items both scoring keys shared; Icelandic subjects scored lower on all factors, although not always at a statistically significant level. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Psychological Reports 53 3 999 1003 |
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577 men and 567 women were given the 101-item version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, translated into Icelandic. Although some items were inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was suggested and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. Icelandic and British subjects were compared on the personality factors, using reduced scales comprising only items both scoring keys shared; Icelandic subjects scored lower on all factors, although not always at a statistically significant level. |
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National Differences in Personality: Iceland and England |
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