Dimensions of Personality

by Eysenck; Hans J.

• ISBN13: 9781560009856
• ISBN10: 1560009853
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION	ix	(10)
FOREWORD	xix	(2)
PROFESSOR A. LEWIS
INTRODUCTION	xxi
CHAPTER ONE: METHODS AND DEFINITIONS	1	(32)
INTRODUCTION	1	(1)
THE EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION	2	(8)
THEORIES OF TEMPERAMENT	10	(4)
GENERALITY VERSUS SPECIFICITY	14	(5)
ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIAL	19	(3)
DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS	22	(6)
THEORY OF PERSONALITY STRUCTURE	28	(4)
SUMMARY	32	(1)
CHAPTER TWO: ASSESSMENTS AND RATINGS	33	(41)
A FACTORIAL ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY	33	(4)
NEUROTICISM	37	(4)
THEORIES OF NEUROTICISM	41	(10)
INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION	51	(5)
THEORIES OF INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION	56	(5)
QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF NEUROTICISM	61	(9)
QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF PERSISTENCE AND IRRITABILITY	70	(2)
SUMMARY	72	(2)
CHAPTER THREE: PHYSIQUE AND CONSTITUTION	74	(37)
BODY TYPE AND BODY SIZE	74	(9)
PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF PHYSIQUE	83	(12)
AUTONOMIC ACTIVITY: SALIVARY SECRETION	95	(2)
DARK VISION	97	(4)
CHOLINE ESTERASE SECRETION	101	(2)
EXERCISE RESPONSE	103	(3)
OSCILLATION (REVERSAL OF PERSPECTIVE)	106	(4)
SUMMARY	110	(1)
CHAPTER FOUR: ABILITY AND EFFICIENCY	111	(50)
INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSIS	111	(7)
"SCATTER" AS A PERSONALITY VARIABLE	118	(8)
SPEEDED VERSUS UNSPEEDED TESTS	126	(2)
LEVEL OF ASPIRATION	128	(16)
PERSONAL TEMPO	144	(10)
PERSEVERATION	154	(4)
PERSISTENCE	158	(2)
SUMMARY	160	(1)
CHAPTER FIVE: SUGGESTIBILITY AND HYPNOSIS	161	(41)
PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF SUGGESTIBILITY	161	(4)
TYPES OF SUGGESTIBILITY	165	(9)
THE NATURE OF PRIMARY SUGGESTIBILITY	174	(10)
PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF PRIMARY SUGGESTIBILITY	184	(6)
HYSTERIA AND SUGGESTIBILITY	190	(3)
IDEO-MOTOR ACTION	193	(6)
NARCOSIS AND SUGGESTIBILITY	199	(1)
SUMMARY	200	(2)
CHAPTER SIX: APPRECIATION AND EXPRESSION	202	(42)
TEMPERAMENT AND "WELTANSCHAUUNG"	202	(4)
APPRECIATION: GENERAL THEORY	206	(6)
CONFORMITY: THE RANKING RORSCHACH TEST	212	(7)
TYPES OF AESTHETIC APPRECIATION	219	(1)
COLOUR/FORM ATTITUDES	220	(5)
SENSE OF HUMOUR	225	(9)
EXPRESSION TESTS: MOSAIC CONSTRUCTION AND GRAPHOLOGY	234	(8)
SUMMARY	242	(2)
CHAPTER SEVEN: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS	244	(19)
APPENDIX A: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN THE METHODOLOGY OF FACTOR ANALYSIS	263	(10)
APPENDIX B: STATIC ATAXIA AS AN INDEX OF NEUROTICISM	273	(6)
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX	279	(25)
SUBJECT INDEX	304