The relationship between eysenck's personality factors and attitude towards truancy among 13–15 year olds in England and wales

Abstract

A sample of 12,616 year nine and year ten pupils completed the Short Form Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with a question to assess their personal attitude towards truancy. The data demonstrate that 17.1% of the respondents consider truancy to be a perfectly acceptable form of behaviour. The view that there is nothing wrong in truancy is positively correlated with psychoticism scores, positively correlated to a lesser extent with extraversion scores and neuroticism scores, and negatively correlated with Lie scale scores.