A comparative study of personality in Ugandan and English subjects

Nine hundred and twenty-one males and 555 females in Uganda completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Indices of factor comparison indicated that the personality dimensions of P, E, N and L were virtually identical in Uganda and England. Some item changes were required to establish satisfactory reliabilities (alpha) for all factors. Sex differences revealed that males scored higher than females on E but lower on N, which is the usual finding. Strikingly, however, there was no sex difference for P and L, there being, in fact, a very slight tendency for females to score above males on P and below them on L. Cross-cultural comparisons, using only items both Ugandan and English scoring keys had in common, showed Ugandan Ss to score higher on L than their English counterparts, Ugandan males also scoring higher on E and N and Ugandan females scoring higher on P.