Cross-Cultural Study of Personality the Polish Adaptation of EPQ

Abstract

The EPQ was administrated to 1193 Polish subjects and the data were factor-analyzed for each personality dimension. The E, N and L scales loaded well resulting in the 19-items E scale, 20-items N scale and 25-items L scale, all of them having the alfa coefficient higher than ,80, whereas the P scale loaded moderately and low so that only 13-items P scale was obtained with the alfa coefficients ,51 for men and ,45 for women. In total the Polish scoring key has 77 items. In the comparison of Polish and English samples, using items both scoring key had in common, no consistent differences were observed, although Polish males scored higher on N then the English males, and slightly higher on L, while Polish females scoreds lightly lower on E than their English counterparts. One curious feature of the study is hardly any difference on the Lie scale between Polish and English groups; Poland is classed with the „permissive” countries. This result is discussed in a reference to Poland’s cultural patterns and democratization processes.