EPPS or Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule is another personality or we can call it

the inventory test to view your personality, and also needs. The EPPS Test use the same grand
theory, the Murray theory of human needs, which is the same grand theory as the TAT
personality test.

Although Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule has same theory with the TAT, but the
administration, type, and also focused or main purpose of the EPPS is different from the TAT
test. The EPPS only shows information about human needs, conflict, and how people overcome
it.

Administration of EPPS (Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule).

The EPPS (Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule) consist of 225 statements, that came
from daily life. You have to choose one of two statements in each number. So, there will be a
225 x 2 statement, 450 statements on this EPPS. It’s clear to see that EPPS test is one of the most
energy-taking test. It is important to you to saves energy before taking this test. As a participant,
you have to choose A or B in each question, which fits you the best. EPPS takes 40 to 50 minutes
to administer.

Scoring of EPPS (Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule).

Answers to the items appearing in the EPPS are recorded on a separate answer sheet.
There are two ways in which scoring can be done:

 Machine scoring
 Hand scoring

Hand scoring procedure.

Step 1.

The template provided must be placed over the answer sheet so that the items printed above the
three wide slots appear within these slots ensuring correct registration. Through the three narrow
slits running diagonally across the template, draw lines on the answer sheet. These lines will go
through items 1,7,13,19,25,101,107,113,119,125,201,207,213,219 and 225. The items crossed
out are not to be counted in obtaining the scores.
 Through the three wide openings in the template, trace the outlines of the openings on the
answer sheet. These lines should encompass items 151, 157, 163, 169, 175. 26, 32, 38, 44, 50,
51, 57, 63, 69 and 75. These items will be counted in raw scores as well for the consistency
check.

Step 2.

Count the number of A’s encircled in the first row of the answers on the answer sheer and
record this number at the end of the row in the column labeled “r”. count the number of A’s
encircled in each row and record the count in column labeled “r”. in counting all the A’s in rows
do not count encircled A’s in any item that has been marked out in step 1.

Step 3.

Count the number of B’s in first column and record this count in the first top row of
column labeled “c”. do the same for the rest of the column. In counting all the B’s in columns do
not count encircled B’s in any item that has been marked out in step 1.

Step 4.

When step 3 has been completed there will be fifteen numbers recorded in column
labeled “r” and in column labeled “c”. Add the two numbers of “r” and “c” in each rows and
record the sum in column labeled “s”. the numbers recorded in column “s” are the raw scores of
the 15 personality variables.

To check the scoring, sum of all the scores in column “s” must be equal to 210. Sum greater or
less than 210 indicates the presence of error.
Step 5.

The pairs of items identified in step 1 are the following:

1/151 7/157 13/163 19/169 25/157 26/101

32/107 38/113 44/119 50/125 51/201 57/207

63/213 69/219 75/225

These items are identical, if the individual filling out the EPPS has been consistent, he
will have encircled the same letter for both of the indicated items in each column. To obtain the
consistency scores compare the response of both items, if they are same then mark in the bos at
the end of each column. If the response is different, do nt mark. Finally count the numbers of
check marks across the rows of boxes and record the sum in the space labeled “con” at the
bottom right hand corner of the answer sheet.

Interpretation.

Each of the 15 personality variables in the EPPS is paired twice with each of the other
variables. If in each of the comparisons, the subject has chosen the statement for a given variable
as being more characteristic of himself then the statements for the other variables, his score on
this particular variable would be 28. This is the maximum score that can be obtained for any
given personality variables. in order to obtain a score of 0 for any given variable the object
would always have to regard the statements for this variable, in the 28 comparisons in which it
appears, as being less characteristic of himself than the paired statements for the other variables.
The two statements comprising each item in the EPPS are comparable, within the limits to be
noted later, with respect to their social desirability scale values.