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July 12, 2014
July 2, 2014
Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire (EPQ): Do Your Own Online Test
Initially, Eysenck created two continuum Extraversion-Intraversion and Neuroticism-Stability. Further research showed him the need to add one more inventory: Psychoticism-Socialisation, resulting in the EPQ as we know today which consists of three PEN trait inventory.
Prior to Eysenck's discovery of Psychoticism, he correlated his original two traits (introversion and neuroticism) with an ancient greek personality system known as the Galen types (Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, Phlegmatic). Check out the four quadrants above to see the general description of each Galen type.
Read my previous post on EPQ here: http://www.angeliciaang.com/2014/07/eysenck-personality-questionnaire-epq.html
This is the sample of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire dated 1985. There's an additional 4th trait dimension Lie in it. If you want to spend more time on the test and you're curious about the complete EPQ, do this test here:
http://wiki.mgto.org/eysenck_personality_questionnaire
I like this site's EPQ description with examples of trait differences: http://www.dandebat.dk/eng-person4.htm
July 1, 2014
Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire (EPQ): Eysenck's Three Dimensions of Personality Theory
Psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck created this EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) model together with his wife Sybil B. G. Eysenck in 1947, which was updated again in the late 1970s.
The personality model assumes that everyone is rooted on the similar three universal traits (PEN inventory):
1. Psychoticism versus Socialisation
When an individual is high on psychoticism scale, he/she exhibits hostile, antisocial, manipulative, and apathetic tendencies. They tend to find difficulties in dealing with reality.
2. Extraversion versus Intraversion
Introversion as explained by Eysenck refers to a preferred way of individual to directs his/her attention to inner experiences, which commonly result to the individual being quieter and more reserved.
Extraversion, on the other hand, is when individual directs the attention outward to people around them and to the environment. Someone who is higher on the extraversion scale will be more outgoing and sociable. High on positive affects, and requiring more external stimuli.
3. Neuroticism versus Emotional stability
According to Eysenck, neuroticism relates to one's propensity to get emotional or become upset, while people who score high on the emotional stability bar stay emotionally constant.
The general description for each PEN personality inventory:
From nature vs nurture point of view, Eysenck focuses more on the nature part, assuming that individuals temperament originates from the genetic inheritance. He considers personality differences as growing out of hereditary nature.
Eysenck explains his personality model as highly determined by the activity in our nervous system (our physiology and genetics).
Extraversion-intraversion is caused by differences in level of internal cortical arousal and level of external stimuli required to achieve individual's optimal performance.
Emotional stability-instability is caused by differences in activation threshold. Neurotic possesses low activation threshold hence negative experience more easily incites anxiety, while the emotionally stable individual owns high activation threshold that enables him/her to stay calm and composed during problems.
Psychoticism is caused by testosterone. High level of psychoticism is said to be caused by high level of testosterone.
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