The Factorial Structure of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Among Egyptian Students

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Abstract
The 80-item Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was given to 248 University students at Cairo University in order to study the factorial structure of this scale in Egypt. Principal factor analysis and varimax rotations of the 80 items and total scores of Psychoticism, Extraversion and Neuroticism yielded 10 factors, out of which eight are meaningful. These are: cultural responses, neuroticism, psychoticism, extraversion, physical complaints, paranoid hostility, adjustment, and manifest anxiety-tension. The general trend of the results indicates that Eysenck's personality factors are obtainable in spite of the fact that certain items deviate from the pattern found in the original scale.