Inanual of the 
   EYSENCK 
  ·PERSONALITY 
   INVENTORY 
       . . 
  . H.  J.  Eysenok  &SybU B.  B.  Eysenok 
   I i  I HODDER AND STOUGHTON 
          MANUAL OF  THE 
      EYSENCK PERSONALITY 
             INVENTORY 
               H. J.  Eysenck, Ph.D., 
           Professor 'oj Psychology,  University  of London; 
          Psychologist,  Maudsley  and Bethlem Royal Hospitals; 
             and Sybil B.  G. Eysenck, Ph.D., 
                 Senior Lecturer 
                Institute of Psychiatry 
            HODDER AND STOUGHTON 
               ISBN 0 340  06707  1 
               Copyright ©  1964  H. J.  Eysenck and Sybil B. G. Eysenck 
               Reprinted 1982 
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               E.P.I. MICROCOMPUTER DISK 
               The E.P.I. (Forms A and B) is now available for 
               administration, scoring and data storage in 
               microcomputer disk versions. See page 23  for 
               further details. 
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                                                              Contents 
                       Acknowledgments                                                                                             4 
                  1.   Introduction                                                                                                5 
                  2.   General Background                                                                                          5 
                  3.   Personality and Experimental Psychology                                                                     7 
                  4.   Nature of E and N                                                                                           8 
                  5.   Construction of the Scales                                                                                10 
                  6.   Reliability of the Scales                                                                                 11 
                  7.   Relation between the Scales                                                                               11 
                 8.    Validity of the Scales                                                                                    12 
                  9.   Response Sets                                                                                             13 
                10.  Lie Scale                                                                                                   14 
                11.  Normal Standardization Sample                                                                               15 
                12.  Abnormal Standardization Sample                                                                             15 
                13.  The Effects of Age, Sex and Social Class                                                                    18 
                14.  Applications of the E.P.t                                                                                   18 
                15.  Administration of the E.P.I.                                                                                20 
                16.  Computer Programme for Scoring the E.P.t                                                                   20 
                17.  Microcomputer Disk Versions of the E.P.t                                                                   23 
                       References                                                                                                24