revised EPQ- Questionnaire Psychometric Evaluation of the Arabic version of Eysenck Personality R in students of secondary school

Abstract

The aims of the present study was to verify the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of Eysenck personality questionnaire revised EPQ-R including validity and reability. 439 students of Oran secondary school formed the study simple. Where the validity scale has been verified by items validity, convergent and divergent validity and discriminatory validity (opposite group). Reability scale has been verified by retest and split-half and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient . The results related to items validity showed that there are evidences of high internal consistency and meaning between items and their dimensions, the scale was also characterized by high degree of differentiating validity. The scale shows an acceptable stability through the method of re-test where the stability coefficients was estimated to 0.75, 0.83 the split half reliability coefficient were between 0.59and 0.82 , and by alpha Cronbach’s coefficient method it ranged between 0.60 , 0.83