ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised - Abbreviated (EPQR-A) consists of 24 items for the assessment of the 3 fundamental personality traits (psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism) and a validity scale (lie scale). Our objectives were to assess the psychometric properties of the Brazilian culturally adapted version of this instrument. METHOD: 321 participants were included in a non-probabilistic method. RESULTS: Internal consistencies ranged from minimally acceptable to respectable, except for the psychoticism domain. Higher neuroticism scores were associated with higher depression and anxiety scores, higher extraversion scores were associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, and higher psychoticism scores were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSION: Our findings describe sustainable psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of EPQR-A.