EPQ and the psychiatric patients of Bangladesh

The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, standardized in Bangladesh, was administered to a group of 358 psychiatric patients—109 male and 108 female neurotics and 78 male and 63 female psychotics. The neurotic Ss were analysed separately according to sex, and were also divided into groups according to psychiatric nosology. The major findings that clearly emerged from the study of neurotic individuals were that they returned very elevated N scores and depressed E scores as against the norms, while the depressive patients of both sexes gave the lowest E scores. Most of the psychotic Ss of both sexes were diagnosed schizophrenic. The major finding of the investigation of psychotic individuals was that they returned much elevated scores on the psychoticism scale as compared with norms, and they also gave low E and high N scores. It is suggested that the EPQ be used to promote a better understanding and more efficacious therapeutic intervention of the psychiatrically ill person in this culture.