Assessing personality features and their relations with behavioral problems in adolescents: tridimensional personality questionnaire and junior eysenck personality questionnaire☆
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Participants
The subjects in this study were 905 junior high school students (458 girls and 447 boys) in Taipei City. The sampling of the participants has been described in detail elsewhere.43, 44 Briefly, we stratified the 73 public junior high schools in Taipei City in 1996 by educational levels of the residents into three groups, and selected randomly one school from each group. Then, three classes were randomly selected from each grade in each of the three selected schools. In total, there were 971
Distribution and reliability
The distributions of the scales of both the TPQ and JEPQ were approximately normal, as indicated by the values of skewness and kurtosis, which fell within the range of −0.87 to 0.83 for each scale of the TPQ and the E, N, and L scales of the JEPQ. The only exception was the P scale of the JEPQ, in which skewness was 1.20 and kurtosis was 1.67.
Results of descriptive statistics and reliability of the TPQ and JEPQ are shown in Table 1. Comparing the mean score of each scale between boys and
Discussion
As far as we are aware, this is the first study to examine the applicability for adolescents of the TPQ, which was originally designed for adults, and compare it to that of the JEPQ. We attempted to investigate the two questionnaires’ psychometric properties, inter-relationships, and associations with various behavioral problems. The results are discussed below.
The internal consistencies of the JEPQ scales in this study are equivalent or better than the mean alphas (0.73 for the E, 0.78 for the
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the late Dr. Hans J. Eysenck for granting Dr. Wei J. Chen permission to translate the JEPQ into Chinese, Dr. C.R. Cloninger for granting Dr. Suo-Jeng Wang permission to translate the TPQ into Chinese, and Dr. Tom Przybeck for providing us with the scoring keys of the TPQ. The authors also thank the principals and teachers of the participating schools for their help in recruiting students.
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Supported by grants from the National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC86-2314-B002-328, NSC87-2314-B002-290, NSC88-2314-B002-247, and NSC89-2320-B002-106).