L’objectif de la recherche est d’étudier un échantillon d’étudiants avec un questionnaire rapide d’emploi, le questionnaire de personnalité d’Eysenck révisé et abrégé (EPQR-A). Trois sites universitaires français ont été impliqués dans la recherche (Chambéry, Lille et Toulouse). Pour cette version abrégée, les trois groupes de sujets ont des scores comparables quel que soit le site. De plus, ni le genre ni l’âge ne permet de voir une différence entre les sujets. Seule l’étude de Lewis [7Lewis C.A. The religiosity-psychoticism relationship and the two factors of social desirability: a response to Michael W. Eysenck (1999) Ment Health Religion Cult 2000 ;  3 (1) : 39-45 [cross-ref]

Cliccare qui per andare alla sezione Riferimenti] donne des valeurs dans un groupe d’étudiants pour l’EPQR-A ; elles sont comparables à celles que nous avons obtenues avec la version française. Tous les indices recherchés dans l’analyse de confirmation de l’EPQR-A sont en faveur du modèle en quatre dimensions.

The aim of this paper is to examine the short questionnaire of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised–Abbreviated [EPQR-A]) among a student population. University students were invited, in groups, to fill in the forms proposed. Three sites were compared, representing a sample of 346 participants (Chambéry=118 subjects [44 males and 74 females]; Lille=110 subjects [50 males and 60 females] and Toulouse=118 subjects [60 males and 58 females]). The three groups of students have comparable scores on the EPQR-A wherever they live (Chambéry, Lille or Toulouse). Moreover, neither the age nor the gender allowed the detection of differences between subjects. Our sample of students is situated in the range of a “normal” group of students. Regarding the internal consistency coefficients, the French version we used of the neuroticism and the extraversion scales of the EPQR-A obtained a satisfactory result. The internal consistency coefficient of psychoticism was rather low (<70). This unsatisfactory level of internal reliability for the psychoticism is also found in the English version [7Lewis C.A. The religiosity-psychoticism relationship and the two factors of social desirability: a response to Michael W. Eysenck (1999) Ment Health Religion Cult 2000 ;  3 (1) : 39-45 [cross-ref]

Cliccare qui per andare alla sezione Riferimenti]. The four-factor model of the EPQR-A is judged to be an adequate explanation of the data. In the end, self-esteem correlated positively with extraversion and negatively with neuroticism. On the other hand, there is no link between psychoticism and self-esteem.