Abstract

The English version of the Adult and Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaires (EPQ) was translated into the Korean language. 90 items of the senior version of the EPQ were administered to 661 males and 539 females in Korea, and 81 items of the junior version of the EPQ were administered to 638 boys and 576 girls to compare the dimensional structures of personality in Korean and English adults and children respectively. It was found that identical factors emerged from the Korean population as had been found in the English population. Several items from the original English EPQ were switched to other scales in the Korean version of the EPQ. Although some items which constitute the Korean scales changed and the lengths of the scales were shortened, the reliabilities of all scales were satisfactorily high, intercorrelations of each scale were reasonably low, and the indices of factor comparisons were satisfactorily high. These suggest that major personality dimensions were similar in Korea as in English subjects and that the Korean version of the EPQ is potentially useful. Results of this comparative study have shown that Korean adults scored higher on the scales of psychoticism, neuroticism, and lie but lower on the scale of extraversion than English adults. Korean children scored higher on the lie scale but lower on the scales of extraversion and neuroticism than English children. Korean girls scored higher on the scale of psychoticism than English girls.