EYSENCK PERSONALITY INVENTORY

By H.J. Eysenck and Sybil B.G. Eysonck

Name : Age: Sex:
Game/Sport : High achievement :
INSTRUCTIONS :
Here are some questions regarding the way you behave feel and act. After each
question is a space for answering ‘YES’ or ‘NO’.
Try to decide whether ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ represents you usual way of acting or feeling.
Then put a circle around ‘YES’ or ‘NO’. Work quickly and don’t spend too much time over
any question; we want your first reaction, not a long-drawn out thought process. The whole
questionnaire should not take more than a few minutes. Be sure not to omit and questions.
Work quickly and remember to answer every question. There is no right or wrong
answers and this isn’t a test of intelligence of ability, but simply a measure of the way you
behave.
FORM - A
1. Do you often long for excitement? - Yes / No
2. Do you often need understanding friends to cheer you up? - Yes / No
3. Are you usually care-free? - Yes / No
4. Do you find it very hard to take ‘no’ for an answer? - Yes / No
5. Do you stop and think over before doing anything? - Yes / No
6. If you say’ you will do something, do you always keep you promise, - Yes / No
no matter how inconvenient it might be to do so?
7. Does your mood often go up and down? - Yes / No
8. Do you generally do and say things quickly without stopping to think? - Yes / No
9. Do you ever feel just miserable for no good reason? - Yes / No
10. Would you do almost anything for a dare? - Yes / No
11. Do you suddenly feel shy when want to talk to an attractive stranger? - Yes / No
12. Once in a while do you lose your temper and get angry? - Yes / No
13. Do you often do things on the spur of the moment? - Yes / No
14. Do you often worry about things you should not have done or said? - Yes / No
15. Generally, do you prefer reading to meeting people? - Yes / No
16. Are you feeling rather easily hurt? - Yes / No
17. Do you like going out a lot? - Yes / No
18. Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like - Yes / No
other people to know about?
19. Are you sometimes bubbling over with energy and sometimes very - Yes / No
sluggish?
20. Do you prefer to have few but special friends? - Yes / No
21. Do you daydream a lot? - Yes / No
22. When people shout at you, do you shout back? - Yes / No
23. Are you often troubles about feeling of guilt? - Yes / No
24. Are all your habits good and desirable ones? - Yes / No
25. Can you usually let yourself go enjoy yourself a lot at a gay party? - Yes / No
26. Would you call yourself tense or highly strung? - Yes / No
27. Do other people think of you as being very lively? - Yes / No
28. After you have done something important, do you often come away - Yes / No
feeling you could have done better?
29. Are you mostly quiet when you are with other people? - Yes / No
30. Do you sometimes gossip? - Yes / No
31. Do ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep? - Yes / No
32. If there is something you want to know about world, you rather look it up - Yes / No
in a book than talk to someone about it?
33. Do you get palpitations or thumping in your heart? - Yes / No
34. Do you like the kind of work that you need to pay close attention to? - Yes / No
35. Do you get attacks of shaking or tumbling? - Yes / No
36. Would you always declare everything at the customs, even if you know - Yes / No
that you could never be found out?
37. Do you hate being with a crowd who play jokes on one another? - Yes / No
38. Are you an irritable person? - Yes / No
39. Do you like doing things if which you have to act quickly? - Yes / No
40. Do you worry about awful thing that might happen? - Yes / No
41. Are you slow and unhurried in the way you more? - Yes / No
42. Have you ever been late for an appointment or work? - Yes / No
43. Do you have many nightmares? - Yes / No
44. Do you like talking to people so much that you never miss a chance of - Yes / No
talking to a stranger?
45. Are you troubles by aches and pains? - Yes / No
46. Would you be very unhappy if you could not see lots of people most of - Yes / No
the time?
47. Would you call yourself a nervous person? - Yes / No
48. Of all the people you know are there some whom you definitely do - Yes / No
not like?
49. Would you say that you were fairly self-confident? - Yes / No
50. Are you easily hurt when people fired fault with you or you work? - Yes / No
51. Do you find it hard to really enjoy yourself at a lively party? - Yes / No
52. Are you troubled with feeling of inferiority? - Yes / No
53. Can you easily get some life into a rather dull party? - Yes / No
54. Do you sometimes talk about things you know nothing about? - Yes / No
55. Do you worry about your health? - Yes / No
56. Do you like playing pranks on others? - Yes / No
57. Do you suffer from sleeplessness? - Yes / No