Abstract
Four hundred and eighty three Iranian boys and 593 Iranian girls completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Reliabilities (alpha coefficients) were all high except that for extraversion in girls. Intercorrelations of the scales showed a high social desirability involvement with Psychoticism (P) and Neuroticism (N), suggesting dissimulation may well have taken place. Mean sex differences were mainly in line with studies in other countries, i.e. boys scoring higher on P but lower on N and Social Desirability (L) than girls, with a slight tendency for girls to score higher than boys on extraversion. Cross-cultural comparisons, using only items Iranian and English scoring keys had in common, elicited highly significant differences on L with Iranians giving much higher social desirability scores than their English counterparts. Possibly due to this, Iranian children scored lower than the English children on all other scales.
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