Problem - To measure the personality of the testee using Eysenck Personality Questionaries

Introduction - H.J. Eysenck in 1956 invented personality inventory in Moudsley Hospital, London
which is called Moudsley personality inventory (MPI). According to this inventory, only two
personality dimensions, i.e., extraversion-introversion dimension and neuroticism- stability
dimension. Eysenck in 1965 revised the MPI and added the 3 rd dimension for personality which is
(proneness to lie, L) can be measured. In recent times, one more revision for EPI has been made and
added the 4th dimension for personality that is Psychotism. The revised inventory is named as
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, EPQ. This inventory is very useful and popular and in 1988 its
Hindi adaptation has been introduced by Dr. B. De and Dr. R. Thakur and they also added 5 th
dimension which is superstition. Hence, according to this questionnaire five dimensions are
measured. This questionnaire includes 80 items. Each dimension and number of items has been
mentioned.

Personality Dimension Number of items

Extraversion-introversion, E 18
Neuroticism-stability, N 18
Psychotism-realism, P 18
Proneness to lie, L 18
Superstition 8

Some points about the dimensions mentioned above are-

(a) Extraversion-Introversion, E – This dimension includes two types of traits. Characteristics of

introversion includes a person being offish, shameful, earnest, shy, conservative, etc.
opposite to which is extroversion whose characteristics includes kindness, resilience,
sociality, field independence, etc. There is only quantitative difference between them. This
dimension is represented by the letter ‘E’.
(b) Neuroticism-stability, N - This dimension also includes two types of traits. Characteristics of
neuroticism include extra stress, doubt, promptness, proneness to superstition, etc.
characteristics of stability includes moderate stress, stability in thoughts & company,
emotional stability, etc. There is only quantitative difference between them. This dimension
is denoted by the letter ‘N’.
(c) Psychotism-realism, P - This dimension also includes two types of traits. The hallmarks or
characteristics of psychosis are lack of concentration, excess of imagination, weak memory,
excess of abstract aspect etc. The identity or characteristics of reality are practicability,
creativity, concentration etc. There is only quantitative difference between them. The
symbol for this dimension is the letter P.
(d) Proneness to lie (L) - The meaning of this dimension of personality is that a person has a
tendency to lie. Some people have more of this tendency and some have less. The symbol of
this dimension is the letter L.
(e) Superstition - The meaning of this dimension is that a little bit of superstition is there in all
people. If a cat crosses the path, the journey becomes bad, it is inauspicious to see a person
with ears, it is inauspicious to sneeze while traveling, people with high foreheads are more
intelligent, etc. are examples of superstitions. Religion and legends have a hand in the
development of superstition.
In the present test, the adopted EPQ in Hindi will be used. It is more suitable for Hindi
speaking people and its reliability and validity are very satisfactory. Test-retest reliability
 ranges from .63 to .88 and split-half reliability ranges from .80 to 86. Scoring keys are
available for scoring.

Purpose - The purpose of this test is Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)

Preliminaries – (a) Name of testee – Mina Gupta

(b) Sex - Female

(c) Age - 15 years

(d) Qualification - 11th passed

Test materials – (a) Eysenck Personality questionnaire

(b) Answer sheet

(c) Manual

(d) Screen
(e) Pencil, paper, etc.

Test procedure –

(a) Test design-

Dimension E N P L S
Maximum score 18 18 18 18 8
Obtained score
Percentile
(b) Arrangement for test- The testee was seated next to him. The test booklet, answer sheet,
manual etc. of EPQ (Hindi version) were placed on the table.
(c) General instruction - "I will give you a booklet containing 80 questions. Yes' and 'No' will be
written against each question. The instructions will be written on the top of the booklet.
Please read it carefully. You will also be given an answer sheet. You will read the question
and mark 'yes' or 'no' on this answer sheet. Keep in mind that none of these answers is
wrong. If you have any hesitation, mark the answer that you think is right.
(d) Actual administration of the test- After talking to the testee and establishing rapport and
giving general instructions, the test booklet and answer sheet were given to him. After
answering all the questions, the booklet and answer sheet were taken back. Then with the
help of scoring key, scoring was done on the basis of given answers. Then on the basis of
obtained scores, percentile was calculated.

Data collection

Dimension E N P L S
Scores 11 8 6 11 4
Percentile 41 52 53 32 47
Interpretation of the results - The data collection table shows that our test taker scored 11 on the
extraversion-introversion dimension (E), whose percentile or PR. This means that our test taker is
only above 41% of the population i.e., below 59% of the population. Hence the virtue of extroversion
is average in him. She scores 8 on the neuroticism dimension (N) and her PR is 52. This means that
our examinee is above 52% of the population i.e., just below 48%. So, she is average on this
dimension as well. The testee's score on the psychotism (P) dimension is 6, with a percentile of 53.
This means that he is above 53% people and below 47% people. So, she is average on this dimension
as well. Our examinee's score on the proneness to lie (L) dimension The score is 11, whose percentile
is 32. That means she is above only 32% of the people and below 68% of the people. Hence, she has
a below average tendency to lie. Our examinee scores 4 on the Superstition dimension, S, whose
percentile is 47. This means that on this dimension she is above 47% of the people and below 53% of
the people. So here also it is average.

Conclusion- Our testee is of normal personality on the whole.

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