Detectability of Items in the Eysenck Personality Inventory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9620923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R P POWER (Queen's University Belfast), K D MacRAE (0009-0002-1126-9796, Queen's University Belfast) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-401 |
| Publication date | 1971-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02050.x |
| PMID | 5160441 |
| OpenAlex | W2082835940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Fifty university students completed Form B of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and were then asked to indicate which items were measures of neuroticism (N), extraversion (E) and lying. Almost all items were correctly detected, and detectability of items as N and E items was highly correlated with their factor loadings Correct detection of N items was not related to N factor loadings, but correct detection of E items was related to E factor loadings. This latter finding appeared to be due to the unsatisfactory nature of the E scale. Ability to detect items was not related to personality or intelligence. It was concluded that a major difficulty exists: the better an item (in terms of its factor loading) the more detectable it is
Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Extraversion and introversion · Eysenck Personality Questionnaire · Neuroticism · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Psychometrics · Clinical Psychology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 1981 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |