Eysenck Personality Inventory, EPI

Online test

The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), published in 1963, contains 48 questions and assesses two basic personality traits:

Extraversion/Introversion: This scale measures how sociable and active or withdrawn and reserved a person is.
Neuroticism/Stability: This scale measures the extent to which a person is prone to emotional instability and anxiety or is calm and balanced.

Using test scores from the Extraversion, Introversion, and Neuroticism scales, Eysenck identifies four personality types::

Choleric
Sanguine
Phlegmatic
Melancholic

G.V. Sukhodolsk believes that it is necessary to distinguish not four ("pure" types are an abstraction), but nine personality types – the norm and eight accentuations:

Choleric – aggressive, irascible, changeable/impulsive.
Choleric-Sanguine type – optimistic, active, extroverted, sociable, approachable.
Sanguine – reliable, self-possessed, peaceful, judicious.
Sanguine-Phlegmatic type – carefree, leading, stable, calm, poised.
Phlegmatic – reliable, self-possessed, peaceful, judicious.
Phlegmatic-melancholic type – diligent, passive, introvert, quiet, unsociable.
Melancholic – reserved, pessimistic, sober, rigid.
Melancholic-choleric type – conscientious, capricious, neurotic, resentful, restless.
Normal type

Online Test

Instructions:

You are asked to answer 48 questions. The questions are aimed at identifying your usual way of behaving. Try to imagine typical situations and give the first "natural" answer that comes to your mind. Answer quickly and accurately. Remember that there are no "good" or "bad" answers.

1. Do you often crave new experiences, distractions, and strong sensations?

Yes No

2. Do you often feel that you need friends who can understand, encourage, or sympathize with you?

Yes No

3. Do you consider yourself a carefree person?

Yes No

4. Is it very difficult for you to give up your intentions?

Yes No

5. Do you think over your affairs slowly and prefer to wait before acting?

Yes No

6. Do you often have mood swings?

Yes No

7. Do you usually act and speak quickly, without spending much time thinking?

Yes No

8. Have you ever had a feeling that you are unhappy, although there was no serious reason for this?

Yes No

9. Is it true that you are capable of anything in a dispute?

Yes No

10. Do you feel embarrassed when you want to meet a person of the opposite sex you like?

Yes No

11. Does it often happen that you act rashly, under the influence of the moment?

Yes No

12. Are you often bothered by thoughts that you should not have done or said something?

Yes No

13. Do you prefer reading books to meeting people?

Yes No

14. Is it true that you are easily offended?

Yes No

15. Do you like to be in company often?

Yes No

16. Is it true that sometimes you are so full of energy that everything burns in your hands, and sometimes you feel very lethargic?

Yes No

17. Do you try to limit your circle of acquaintances to a small number of close friends?

Yes No

18. Do you dream a lot?

Yes No

19. When people yell at you, do you answer in kind?

Yes No

20. Do you consider all your habits good?

Yes No

21. Are you sometimes able to give free rein to your feelings and have a carefree time with a fun company?

Yes No

22. Can it be said that your nerves are often stretched to the limit?

Yes No

23. Are you known as a lively and cheerful person?

Yes No

24. After the work is done, do you often mentally return to it and think that you could have done better?

Yes No

25. Do you feel uneasy when you are in a large company?

Yes No

26. Do you ever have trouble sleeping because various thoughts keep popping into your head?

Yes No

27. When you want to find out something, what do you prefer: to look it up in a book (click "Yes") or ask your friends (click "No")?

Yes No

28. Do you experience strong heart palpitations?

Yes No

29. Do you enjoy work that requires concentration?

Yes No

30. Do you have bouts of trembling?

Yes No

31. Do you feel uncomfortable in a company where everyone is joking around?

Yes No

32. Are you irritable?

Yes No

33. Do you enjoy work that requires quick action?

Yes No

34. Is it true that you are often troubled by thoughts of various troubles and "horrors" that could have happened, even though everything turned out well?

Yes No

35. Is it true that you are slow in your movements and somewhat sluggish?

Yes No

36. Do you often have nightmares?

Yes No

37. Is it true that you love to talk so much that you don't miss any opportunity to chat with a new person?

Yes No

38. Are you bothered by any pains?

Yes No

39. Would you be upset if you couldn't see your friends for a long time?

Yes No

40. Can you call yourself a nervous person?

Yes No

41. Could you say that you are a confident person?

Yes No

42. Are you easily offended by criticism of your shortcomings or your work?

Yes No

43. Is it difficult for you to truly enjoy events involving a lot of people?

Yes No

44. Are you bothered by the feeling that you are somehow worse than others?

Yes No

45. Could you liven up a boring company?

Yes No

46. Are you worried about your health?

Yes No

47. Do you like to joke around with others?

Yes No

48. Do you suffer from insomnia?

Yes No