Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 1984"

TL;DR: In this article, a two-scale questionnaire (STQ) is described which was modelled on the current distinction, in DSM-III, between ''schizotypal personality disorder'' and ''borderline personality disorder''.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between various demographic and social belief variables, and people's attitudes to, and habits of, money usage, and found that age, education and Protestant Work Ethic beliefs most differentiated Ss' attitudes to money.

TL;DR: The Gudjonsson suggestibility scale (GSS) as discussed by the authors was developed to measure individual susceptibility to suggestion and can be used as a clinical tool or as a research instrument for obtaining greater understanding of the nature and mechanisms of interrogative suggestibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the longitudinal consistency of intelligence, personality traits and self-opinion (self-esteem, life satisfaction etc.) is analyzed as the product of period-free reliability and the true stability of the construct ( s n, where s is the coefficient of annual stability and n the number of years of the retest interval).

TL;DR: A total of 1505 children (633 boys and 872 girls) completed the I6 Impulsiveness Questionnaire Reliabilities, scale intercorrelations and means and standard deviations are given after slight modifications were made to the original scoring key on the basis of factor analyses as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Future studies of the determinants of subjective well-being should include measures of neuroticism and physician-rated health, and neuroticism is significantly related to changes in subjectiveWell-being.

TL;DR: In this paper, the means for each scale score from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were compared individually and conjointly across 25 countries, using coded difference scores, Pearson correlations, Euclidean distances, cluster analyses and non-metric multidimensional scaling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the validation of brief, self-report measures of intrinsic enjoyment and boredom coping, which were used to reflect the capacity for good attentional control across a variety of situations.

TL;DR: In this article, a battery of eight different reaction time (RT) tests, measuring the speed with which individuals perform various elementary cognitive processes, and a group test of scholastic aptitude (the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, ASVAB) were given to 50 black and 56 white male vocational college students.

TL;DR: In this paper, normal volunteers (N = 120) were screened on the evoked potential (EP) measure of augmenting/reducing introduced by Buchsbaum and Silverman (1968) and compared with extreme reducers on the Zuckerman Sensation-seeking Scales, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM) and a measure of pain sensitivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between creativity and left-hemisphere and righthemisphere EEG activity and found that highly-creative people exhibit greater right-hemispheres than left hemispheres EEG activity during creative performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the correlations between personality characteristics and a variety of sexual attitudes and behavior in a sample of male Canadian college students were examined by examining the correlations of personality characteristics with sexual behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors followed-up 245 patients referred to the Henderson Hospital (194 admitted for treatment and 51 not admitted) and for whom information had been collected on their social background and certain psychological variables allowing a classification and typology of personality disorder to be worked out.

TL;DR: In this article, the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS) was validated among delinquent and adolescent boys placed in an assessment and short-term treatment centre, and it was found that adolescent boys are particularly susceptible to suggestions when they are "pressured" by negative feedback and instructions.

TL;DR: It does seem possible to find animal analogues of human personality types, even in lowly mammals, such as rats, and positive results, in line with prediction, are reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, a specially designed "Blame Attribution Inventory" was constructed and administered to 224 Ss who had committed ‘serious’ criminal acts and found that external attribution had significant correlation with the EPQ P scale, mental-element attribution correlated significantly with EPQ L scale and the Gough Socialization Scale (GSS), and guilt-feeling attribution was associated with depression and neuroticism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to relate field dependence-independence (FDI) to accident involvement and perceived causes of accidents as well as to trace these relationships to the sensation-seeking tendency of the field-dependent driver.

TL;DR: Izard's Differential Emotions Scale (DES) was administered to 204 University of Delaware undergraduates under each of four imaginal mood-induction conditions (labelled: General Depression, Curiosity, Specific Depression and Anxiety) and an actual pre-exam condition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the EMBU Rejection, Emotional Warmth, Overprotection and Favouring Subject dimensions were shown to be congruent across rotational procedures (Oblique vs Varimax) and they were shown in further analyses to be: (a) replicable across split samples of phobics (Ns: 421 vs 420); and (b) invariant across distinct populations (phobics, N = 841 vs normals, n = 277).

TL;DR: In this paper, the Zuckerman Sensation-seeking Scale (SSS) was administered to 190 men and 197 women, who were also asked to choose 5 pictures out of a group of 21.

TL;DR: In this article, a separation of state and trait factors, and an allocation of modulation values to situations, was attempted by giving the Eight State Battery (8SQ) and the Motivation Analysis Test (MAT) to two groups, each under two situations, one aversive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared high and low schizotypal normals on divided field tasks of (a) letter recognition and (b) local-global processing, and found that low Ss had an expected right visual-field superiority, whereas high Ss showed the opposite, resembling schizophrenic patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, three experiments were conducted to investigate various determinants of the common-sense conception of neuroticism, and the results suggested some similarity in expert explicit theories and layperson implicit theories, though there appeared to be systematic biases in the subjects' perception of their own neuroticism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that deaf children's performance IQ is virtually independent of language acquisition, and they also show that cognition, as measured by PIQ, is very similar to that of hearing children.

TL;DR: In this paper, a negative relationship between IQ and fertility, both actual and expected, was found for the American Mensa membership in the U.S.A. The membership of Mensa may not be a representative sample of the high IQ population as a whole, as it seems to attract a disproportionate number of low procreators even for this population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between suggestibility and variables related to memory recall and self-esteem in the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS).

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was made of the relationship between performance asymmetries on a verbal DVF task in a group of normal Ss (18 male, 18 female) and self-report measures of personality Interest was focused primarily on a new questionnaire, the STQ, which purports to provide measures of both ''schizotypal'' and ''borderline'' personality.