R: 13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory...

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## 13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory

### Description

A small data set of 5 scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory, 5 from a Big 5 inventory, a Beck Depression Inventory, and State and Trait Anxiety measures. Used for demonstrations of correlations, regressions, graphic displays.

### Usage

    data(epi.bfi)

### Format

A data frame with 231 observations on the following 13 variables.

`epiE`

  EPI Extraversion

`epiS`

  EPI Sociability (a subset of Extraversion items

`epiImp`

  EPI Impulsivity (a subset of Extraversion items

`epilie`

  EPI Lie scale

`epiNeur`

  EPI neuroticism

`bfagree`

  Big 5 inventory (from the IPIP) measure of Agreeableness

`bfcon`

  Big 5 Conscientiousness

`bfext`

  Big 5 Extraversion

`bfneur`

  Big 5 Neuroticism

`bfopen`

  Big 5 Openness

`bdi`

  Beck Depression scale

`traitanx`

  Trait Anxiety

`stateanx`

  State Anxiety

### Details

Self report personality scales tend to measure the “Giant 2" of Extraversion and Neuroticism or the “Big 5" of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. Here is a small data set from Northwestern University undergraduates with scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and a Big 5 inventory taken from the International Personality Item Pool.

### Source

Data were collected at the Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Lab (PMCLab) at Northwestern by William Revelle)

### References

http://personality-project.org/pmc.html

### Examples

    data(epi.bfi)
    pairs.panels(epi.bfi[,1:5])
    describe(epi.bfi)

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