EPQ correlates of the personality deviance scale

New patients at a psychiatric day hospital were asked to complete a set of questionnaires, including the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and the Personality Deviance Scale of Bedford and Foulds. This paper reports on the resulting correlations between the variables measured by these two inventories. The findings broadly replicate those of Bedford and Foulds with the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Personality Deviance Scale. The Neuroticism scale of the EPQ was found to correlate with all of the PDS scales, and particularly highly with intropunitiveness. As regards the Psychoticism Scale of the EPQ, this was found to correlate highly with extrapunitiveness, but not with intropunitiveness or dominance. It is concluded that there appears to be some relationship between P and this hostility measure of extrapunitiveness, a finding somewhat in contradiction to recent conclusions by Forbes based on his study of a normal sample.