Eysenck's Personality Dimensions Research Articles

Global Self-Rating Validation of the Measurement of Extraversion and Neuroticism

To contribute to the estimation of the validity of Eysenck's major personality dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism, as measured by the newly developed P-E-N inventory (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1972), 122 university students completed the P-E-N as well as global self-ratings of these dimensions. The correlations between the two techniques were 0.61 and 0.67 for extraversion and neuroticism, respectively. Individuals identified by the personality inventory as extravert or introvert also differed significantly in the expected direction on the global self-ratings. This result also obtained for neuroticism. The two dimensions themselves were significantly correlated in the personality inventory, contrary to Eysenck's theory, but not in the global self-ratings. The results, which were in accord with previous work supporting the self-rating validation of these dimensions, extend that work to the most recently developed measures of extraversion and neuroticism.

IS PERSONALITY RELATED TO SOCIAL ATTITUDES? AN ATTEMPT AT REPLICATION

An attempt was made to replicate previous work relating Eysenck's personality dimensions to social attitudes. Sixty-one female student nurses from a district general hospital completed the P.E.N. inventory and the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale. No significant correlation was obtained between psychoticism, neuroticism, extraversion, Lie Scale, and any of the six social attitude variables. One hundred eleven female psychiatric patients completed the E.P.I. Form A, and the Conservatism Scale. No significant relationship was found between neuroticism, extra-version, and any of the six social attitude variables. The Lie Scale correlated positively with the Conservatism vs Liberalism Scale (p < 0.01) and the Ethnocentrism- Intolerance Scale (p < 0.05). Sixty-eight boys and 65 girls, aged 13 and 14, completed children's versions of the P.E.N. inventory and the Conservatism Scale. Only one significant correlation, the Lie Scale and Sex (negative), was consistent for both sexes.

Impulsivity: self-report and performance measure.

Summary. A sample of 98 boys, aged 11–12 years, completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and were individually administered Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures test of reflection/impulsivity. Four groups were formed on the basis of median splits on two indices of impulsivity and a two‐way analysis of variance was carried out against Eysenck's personality dimensions and an additional impulsivity factor derived from the same inventory. The fact that no main effects or interactions were obtained for any self‐report measure was discussed with reference to other failures to validate the JEPI.

Eysenck's Personality Dimensions: a Model for the MMPI

Nine of the ten clinical scales of the MMPI were considered as measures of the neuroticism, psychoticism and extraversion personality dimensions of Eysenck. The correspondence between the conceptual placement of the subtests in Eysenck's three‐dimensional space and their empirical placement in factor space was tested for 205 married males and again for 205 married females. The correspondence was significant for both sexes but considerably stronger for the females than for the males.

Intercorrelations between the Sjöbring and Eysenckian personality dimensions.

Intercorrelations between the Sjöbring and Eysenckian personality dimensions.

A FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDY OF EYSENCK'S AND SCHUTZ'S PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AMONG PSYCHIATRIC GROUPS.

A FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDY OF EYSENCK'S AND SCHUTZ'S PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AMONG PSYCHIATRIC GROUPS.