Personality characteristics influence individuals’ perceptions, evaluations, and behaviors toward external stimuli. This study aims to investigate the of extroversion–introversion personality hospitality customers on amount value they attached different service quality dimensions. The customers’ dimensions has not been previously studied by researchers. data were obtained from 508 Turkish touri...

This study sought to investigate the connection between foreign language anxiety andextroversion and introversion personality types. The way adult language learnersconceptualize their fear of negative evaluation as a component of foreign language anxietyconstruct was also investigated. To this end, 50 Iranian adult language learners were selectedas participants of the study and divided into two...

the purpose of this study was to compare personality traits and anxiety and depression of iranian traditional wrestling athletes with wrestling, taekwondo and kabaddi athletes. 175 sportsmen were randomly selected using morgan and kerjesy table. eysenck personality inventory (epi) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) were used to collect the data. in addition to descriptive statisti...

Background A large number of studies about adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis focus on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, only a few articles aim at evaluating the personality of these patients. Therefore, the purpose of the present research is to assess the personality traits of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and their relationship with HRQOL.Our hypothesis is that adol...

The main areas studied until the 70s were fatigue and rest. Many tests for fatigue were examined, and studies failed to find their practical use. Fatigue grows according to the positive acceleration curve while recovery grows according to the negative acceleration curve. Different mechanisms are involved in intelligence test performance when subjects are fatigued and when rested. Contrary to th...

In this article we attempt to distinguish empirically between psycho-social variables that are concomitants of depression, and variables that may serve as antecedents or sequelae of this disorder. We review studies that investigated the relationship between depression and any of six psychosocial variables after controlling for the effects of concurrent depression. The six variables examined are...

Prospective memory (PM) is memory for future events. PM is a developing area of research (e.g., Brandimonte, Einstein & McDaniel, 1996) with recent work linking personality types and their utilisation of PM (Goschke & Kuhl, 1996; Searleman, 1996). The present study compared 28 extraverts and 28 introverts on their short- and long-term prospective memory using the Prospective Memory Scale develo...

Wallace (1966) proposed that personality be construed as a set of abilities. Rather than assessing typical performance, as in trait ratings, he recommended assessing an individual's ability to perform social behaviors. We have elaborated this notion by distinguishing between personality abilities and capabilities. In this article we focus on the capability, that is, the ease with which an indiv...