Response set and the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

✍ Scribed by M. J. Stones

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197607)32:3<568::aid-jclp2270320317>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

difference. The remaining items were nonsignificant. Three of the repetitions (15/314, 16/315, and 37/302) differed on the .01 level for the female Ss, and it is noteworthy that these were the same items on which the males varied. One female pair (21/308) differed on the .05 level, and all the others were nonsignificant for this gender group.

The present data thus indicated that nearly 20% of the paired items were responded to differently by normal men, while normal women answered differently one-fourth of the repetitions. These findings suggest that the internal consistency of MMPI endorsements may not be as good as has been assumed, and further investigation is indicated.