A cross-cultural study of personality: Iranian and English children

Four hundred and eighty three Iranian boys and 593 Iranian girls completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Reliabilities (alpha coefficients) were all high except that for extraversion in girls. Intercorrelations of the scales showed a high social desirability involvement with Psychoti...

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Published inPersonality and individual differences Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 203 - 210
Main Authors Eysenck, Sybil B.G., Makaremi, Azar, Barrett, Paul T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.1994
Elsevier
Subjects
Adolescents
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Children
Comparison
Cross Cultural Studies
Cultural Differences
Developmental psychology
England
Factor Structure
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Iran
Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory
Personality
Preadolescents
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Sex Differences
Iran
United Kingdom (England)
England
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Asia
Europe
Human
Social environment
Neuroticism
Crosscultural study
Extraversion introversion
Interindividual comparison
Sex
Personality
Psychoticism
Social desirability
Junior Personality Questionnaire Eysenck
Preadolescent
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Summary:Four hundred and eighty three Iranian boys and 593 Iranian girls completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Reliabilities (alpha coefficients) were all high except that for extraversion in girls. Intercorrelations of the scales showed a high social desirability involvement with Psychoticism (P) and Neuroticism (N), suggesting dissimulation may well have taken place. Mean sex differences were mainly in line with studies in other countries, i.e. boys scoring higher on P but lower on N and Social Desirability (L) than girls, with a slight tendency for girls to score higher than boys on extraversion. Cross-cultural comparisons, using only items Iranian and English scoring keys had in common, elicited highly significant differences on L with Iranians giving much higher social desirability scores than their English counterparts. Possibly due to this, Iranian children scored lower than the English children on all other scales.
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ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/0191-8869(94)90159-7