ABSTRACT
The scale was designed to measure the two major personality traits of neuroticism (stability/emotionality) and extraversion/introversion. (The inventory also contains a lie scale for the detection of faking.) The construction of an experimental set of 108 items was begun by carefully selecting, adapting and re-writing items contained in the adult version of the E.P.I., and adding further items. Items presented below (Table 21.1) are adapted with permission from the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory, copyright 1965 by Educational and Industrial Testing Service, San Diego. All references in this chapter will be to the items and numbers as given in this Table. (Occasionally reference to items in the course of the test will be in abbreviated form, or with the wording slightly changed so as to conform to the grammatical structure of the sentence.) From these items were finally chosen the 24 items which constitute the final E scale, and the 24 items which constitute the final N scale; the items in this Junior E.P.I, are also numbered, and these numbers are of course different to those in the Table below. Items adapted from the Junior E.P.I, are also printed in the text on a later page, and on that occasion the numbers of the items in Table 21.1 will also be given again for each item, to make comparisons easier.
Like plenty of excitement going on around you Often need kind friends to cheer you up Like working alone best Often get a feeling that you want something but you don't know what Often long for exciting things to happen Sometimes feel happy and at other times sad for no special reason Shy of speaking first when you meet new people Say things you are thinking quickly Usually happy and cheerful Sometimes go quiet when you are angry Stop and think before doing things Find it very hard to take no for an answer Usually feel if things go badly that they will work out right in the end Moody Usually say things quickly without stopping to think Sometimes feel specially cheerful and at other times sad without any good reason Rather lively Ever feel ‘just miserable’ for no good reason Suddenly feel shy when you want to talk to someone you don't know Find it hard to get to sleep at nights because you are worrying about things Do almost anything if someone dared you to do it Often make up your mind when it is too late Like to plan things carefully before you do anything Often worry about things you should not have done or said Often make up your mind to do things suddenly Feelings rather easily hurt Usually feel that things are bound to work out badly for you Often feel tired for no good reason Like mixing with other children Often feel fed up Call yourself happy-go-lucky Your mind often wanders off when you are doing a job Rather be alone instead of meeting other children Like to stick to one game for a long time Nearly always have a quick answer when people talk to you Sometimes bubble over with energy and sometimes do things seem an awful effort Rather sit and watch than play at parties Soon tire of your toys When you get cross, it helps if you have somebody friendly to talk to Often think of your past Like going out a lot Grown-ups think you are a naughty child Like to have just a few really good friends you can trust Often cry When children shout at you, you shout back Often feel lonely (for boys) Usually shy when you meet girls (for girls) Usually shy when you meet boys After you have done something important you afterwards feel you could have done better Usually let yourself go and enjoy yourself at a gay party Ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep Too shy to ask strangers to give you money for some good cause, like the Scouts Touchy about some things Like practical jokes Sometimes get so restless that you cannot sit in a chair long Usually do a job better by thinking it out alone than by asking others about it Have ‘dizzy turns’ Often get into trouble because you do things without thinking first Get thumping in your heart Other people think of you as being very lively Get attacks of shaking or trembling Rather be at home than at a dull party Lots of things annoy you When someone quarrels with you, you prefer to have it out rather than keep quiet hoping that things will blow over Worry about awful things that might happen Mostly quiet when you are with others Have many frightening dreams There are many foods you hate Ever get short of breath without having done heavy work Rather plan things than do things Suffer from nerves Often like a rough and tumble game Troubled by lots of tummy aches Like the kind of work that you have to keep thinking about and attending to Get frightened in places like lifts, trains or tunnels An easy going person who does not worry about having things just so Sweat a lot without having done much Hate being with a crowd who play jokes on one another Get very bad headaches Like doing things where you have to act quickly Call yourself a nervous person When you make new friends you usually make the first move Bother you if people watch you work at school Slow and unhurried in the way you move Give up easily when things go wrong Like talking to people so much that you would talk to anybody you meet Worry for a long while if you feel you have made a fool of yourself Find it hard to go to sleep at bedtime Sometimes feel life is just not worth living Be very unhappy if you could not see lots of people most of the time Easily hurt when people find fault with you or the work you do Sometimes say the first things which come into your head Usually feel fairly sure you can do the things you have to Find it hard to really enjoy yourself at a lively party Feel shy and awkward when you are with important people Usually not say much except to your nearest friend Feel you are no good and can't do anything right Get a party going Worry about getting ill Take things very seriously rather than laughing them off Often get ‘butterflies in your tummy’ before an important occasion Like playing pranks on others Hate to do more than one thing at a time Very much afraid of the dark On T.V. you like watching Cowboy films better than stories with animals in them Like telling jokes or funny stories to your friends Feel awkward when you are dressed up and in new clothes Still think it is worth having a go at a game even if you are not sure you will win Lie awake a lot during the night |