Assessing the Personality of Clergy: Abbreviated Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP-A)
Several recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of the Eysenck Personality Profiler in assessing the personality characteristics of clergy. However, the instrument, which contains 440 items, takes a long time to complete. The present study analyzed responses provided by 1,671 Anglican clergy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2005
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2005, Volume: 15, Pages: 1-16 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social sciences
B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Several recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of the Eysenck Personality Profiler in assessing the personality characteristics of clergy. However, the instrument, which contains 440 items, takes a long time to complete. The present study analyzed responses provided by 1,671 Anglican clergy and by 400 first-year under-graduate students in order to develop an abbreviated form of the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP-A) in which each of the 21 primary scales is assessed by a 6-item scale. The data supported the internal reliability and concurrent validity of these 6-item measures and of the 42-item scales of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism to which the 6-item measures contribute. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the view that the 6-item scales of the EPP-A were similar to the full version. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789047406563_005 |