Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 1980"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an early phase in the development of new research scale for the assessment of psychopathy in criminal populations, which is meant to be a sort of operational definition of the procedures that go into making global ratings of psychopathology.

TL;DR: A large sample of readers of a popular psychology magazine took the Sensation Seeking Scale (form V) and filled out a personal data form to examine the relationship between SSS scores and demographic and experience variables.

TL;DR: The authors compared normal males who scored at the extremes of Disinhibition (a subscale of the Sensation Seeking Scale) on gonadal hormones, finding that high disinhibitors were higher than lows on testosterone, estradiol and estrone, but not on progesterone.

TL;DR: Based on the computer simulation, a new EEG based measure of intelligence was proposed, and limited data utilizing this proposed measure indicate that it does correlate well with standard I.Q. test scores.

TL;DR: The factor structure of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was investigated to determine whether the STAI State and Trait Anxiety scales were multidimensional as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a 63-item questionnaire containing items measuring impulsiveness, venturesomeness and empathy was given to 299 boys and 204 girls; 251 of these boys and 143 of these girls were also administered the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, measuring Psychoticism (P), Extraversion (E), Neuroticism (N), and dissimulation (L scale, also possibly a measure of conformity).

TL;DR: The extraversion score of 12-yr-old children was compared with a measure of their verbal-imagery learning style and their immediate recall performance on concrete and abstract prose passages.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of twin and parent-offspring data on the EPQ and JEPQ is subjected to genotype-environmental analysis by the balanced pedigree method.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of personality differences between sheep and goats on extraversion-introversion and conservatism-radicalism, and found that sheep tend to be more extraverted and more conservative than goats, who tend towards introversion and intellectual skepticism.

TL;DR: Hierarchical factor analyses were carried out on raw scored EPQ data yielded from two samples of subjects, a Gallup adult quota sample of 1198 subjects and 406 university undergraduates as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Eysenck personality questionnaire was used by as discussed by the authors to investigate the personality and mental health of non-clinical fetishists, transvestites and sadomasochists, and found that these groups of men are relatively introverted, neurotic and slightly higher on psychoticism.

TL;DR: The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (E.P.Q) was used to compare the structure of personality in Brazilian and English men and women, and to compare mean scores of these population on the test.

TL;DR: Very close agreement between the responses of British and Hungarian children were found for the Lie or Social Desirability scale, good agreement for Extraversion but less satisfactory agreement for Neuroticism and Psychoticism items.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of personality and initial levels of drug use were used to predict, multivariately, later drug use among male and female adolescents, and the results indicated that personality and belief measures of nonconventionality provided a significant increment in the prediction of later drug usage beyond a level achieved by knowing initial usage rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the scores of several samples of male alcoholics and others on the MAC Scale were summarized, and the responses of the false negatives and false positives from the scale's standardization samples were analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the American Primary Mental Abilities Test and a Japanese Intelligence Test were compared in order to compare the mean IQs in Japan and the U.S.A. The result indicated that the average Japanese child would obtain a mean IQ of approximately 109 on the American test.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined evidence for a relationship between extraversion, smoking effects, and event related cortical measures, and found that peak CNV amplitude was greater in extraverts during real smoking and greater in introverts during sham smoking sessions which supported previous findings relating to the biphasic arousing properties of smoking.

TL;DR: In this article, a smoking questionnaire containing 26 items covering a range of stressful and non-stressful situations was administered to a sample of 60 light and medium cigarette smokers, and principal component analysis revealed two main factors relating to high and low emotional and attentional stress.

TL;DR: The relationship of scores on the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (IBS) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were studied to investigate the relationship of assertiveness and aggressiveness to more basic dimensions of personality as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results showed that personality significantly correlated with deviancy and antisocial behaviour in support of Eysenck's theory, while risk was significantly negatively correlated with P, ASB and maleness and positively with N and L, while E showed no significance in either direction.

TL;DR: In this article, two questionnaires designed by Howarth (HPQ, APF2) whose factor space in unexplored and the EPQ (Eysenck) were jointly scale factored on 79 subjects, under the hypothesis that Eysenstein's superfactors of P, E, and N should be represented as major influences in the resultant factor structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors addressed the title question by relating psychometric, psychiatric and field-performance measures obtained from a group of military bomb-disposal operators and found that the outstandingly successful operators in this highly competent group of soldiers were found to have some distinctive features.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire survey of people who had learned a technique of meditation was carried out to assess persistence with practice, perceived effects of meditation practice and subjective experiences during meditation.

TL;DR: In an Australia-wide mail survey, "environmentalists" were found to be consumer-conscious, antiauthoritarian, anti-Australia, less interested in personal "success", anti-fashion, counter-culturally oriented and hedonistic as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Eysenck personality questionnaire was administered to 300 females and 40 subjects with the most extreme scores were used such that they could be divided into two groups of 20 subjects, on each personality dimension.

TL;DR: In this paper, factor analyses were carried out on the responses of 115 cigarette smokers to the Smoking Questionnaire of Russell et al. and to certain items of a biographical smoking questionnaire, which confirmed Frith's finding that the first principal component represented a general desire for cigarettes while the second contrasted desire to smoke in high and low-arousal inducing (or stressful and relaxing) situations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared married couples seeking sex therapy, marital therapy, or no form of therapy with respect to personality, sexual and marital functioning, and found that problem couples had higher "neuroticism" scores than did non-Problem couples.

TL;DR: For some years a riddle existed in personality measurement in that primary personality factors uniquely rotated in questionnaires (Q data) would not match primary factors, also in well determined unique resolutions, in objective test (T) data.

TL;DR: In this article, six increasing, six decreasing and six rest, 45-sec trials were presented, where subjects were instructed to try to alter their heart rate as indicated by appropriately labeled lights.