The relation between item format and the structure of the Eysenck Personality Inventory

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The relation between item format and the structure of the Eysenck Personality Inventory

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1978

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A Likert seven-choice response format for personality inventories allows finer distinctions by subjects than the traditional two-choice format. The Eysenck Personality Inventory was employed in the present study to test the hypothesis that use of the expanded format would result in a clearer and more accurate indication of test structure. The subjects, volunteers in a psychology course, took the standard two-choice version of the EPI and a seven-choice version one week apart, with the order counter-balanced. A principal components analysis with a varimax rotation yielded two components for the two-choice format, clearly identifiable as Eysenck’s "Neuroticism" and "Extraversion" which together accounted for 18% of the variance. The seven-choice version resulted in six components accounting for 46% of the variance. The expanded format suggested inadequacies in the structure of the EPI, defined the factor structure more clearly, and explained a greater proportion of the variance. It thus demonstrated the apparent advantages of the multiple-response format for scale construction.

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Velicer, Wayne F & Stevenson, John F. (1978). The relation between item format and the structure of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Applied Psychological Measurement, 2, 293-304. doi:10.1177/014662167800200210

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Velicer, Wayne F.; Stevenson, John F.. (1978). The relation between item format and the structure of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/99284.

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