To investigate the association between shyness and Internet usage, 88 undergraduate students completed the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the Online Cognition Scale, a computer/Internet familiarity scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (short version) and the Abbreviated Duke Social Support Index. Significant correlations were found between shyness, Internet use, and perso...

Eysenck in a 1964 article and Petrie in a 1967 article offered theories relating perceptual characteristics to personality traits, primarily extraversion. Petrie believes that perceptual reactance, the degree to which a given individual over or underresponds to external stimuli, is fairly stable within individuals. Eysenck offered a parallel concept, the excitation/inhibition ratio, to explain ...

(EPQ)1 is a self-report measure that operationalises Eysenck's model of personality.2 In addition to the original English language version,1there now exists a large number of foreign language translations,3,4 including Urdu.5,6 For both clinicians and researchers, the administration of 90 items may be prohibitive due to time or space constraints. Therefore a number of shorter measures,derived f...

spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. the present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (human, existence and god) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness.one hundred seventy eight students of islamic azad university in tor...

The main objective of the current study was to investigate the relationships between Zuckerman’s (1979) sensation seeking and Eysenck and Eysenck’s (1976) personality scales, and how these relate to hostility within a prison population, to explore whether they could be conceptualized in terms of two socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking factors. Participants included 79 adult male offen...

We report the first genome-wide scan of adolescent personality. We conducted a genome-wide scan to detect linkage for measures of adolescent Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Lie from the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Data are based on 1,280 genotyped Australian adolescent twins and their siblings. The highest linkage peaks were found on chromosomes 16 and 19 for Neurotic...

In this book Eysenck presents a solution to modern social problems, namely that his own particular branch of behaviourist psychology can offer modern civilization a way out of its social dilemmas. Education , psychiatry, sexuality, pornography and political attitudes are considered in turn. Social action, Eysenck argues, should take account of inborn differences of personality and intelligence....

The current study explored the correlation between speakers' Eysenck personality traits and speech spectrum parameters. Forty-six subjects completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. They were instructed to verbally answer the questions shown on a computer screen and their responses were recorded by the computer. Spectrum parameters of /sh/ and /i/ were analyzed by Praat voice software. Fo...