A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality: Icelandic Children and English Children

Erlendur Haraldsson; Sybil B.G. Eysenck

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality: Icelandic Children and English Children

Erlendur Haraldsson, Sybil B.G. Eysenck

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Haraldsson, E. & Eysenck, S. B. G. 1987. A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality: Icelandic Children and English Children. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 31, 123–127. 621 boys and 604 girls were given an Icelandic translation of the 97-item Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Although some items were found inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was found and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. A comparison of Icelandic and British norms, using only items common to both, suggests very little difference between the groups. Icelandic girls scored higher on the Lie scale than British girls, and Icelandic boys slightly lower on the Psychoticism scale than British boys.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	123-127
Number of pages	5
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0031383870310303
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 1987

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