A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality

Abstract

506 Sri Lankan men and 521 women completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) translated into Sinhala. Factor comparisons were all high enough to claim that all dimensions measured by the EPQ are virtually identical in Sri Lanka and England. Several item changes were required to produce a viable scoring key, but even then, reliabilities were unacceptably low for psychoticism but adequately high for extroversion, neutroticism and the "lie score." Cross-cultural differences, calculated by using only items in common for both Sri Lankan and British scoring keys, revealed a much higher social desirability mean for Sri Lankan subjects, but higher means on neuroticism for British subjects, with no differences found in psychoticism and extroversion scores.

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