This study is designed to determine if people have a particular stimulus or perceptual preference which is congruent with their personality. Seventy-six male and female college students completed three personality tests, consisting of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Revised Art Scale of the Welsh Figure Preference Test, and the Gough Adjective Check List. A preference for simplicity or complexity in designs for four different personality dimensions was examined. The personality dimension of introversion and extroversion was looked at in particular.

Thesis (M.S. in Psych.)--School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. Directed by Phillip L. Ackerman. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-77).

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The problem with which this study is concerned is that of considering the relationship between neurotic anxiety and several personality variables. Even though anxiety has been the subject of many studies, it is still poorly defined. The basic model to be considered is Eysenck's three-dimensional model between neuroticism and introversion-extroversion. This model is expanded to include Rotter's locus of control and reinforcement expectancy (optimism and pessimism).

The aim of this thesis is to examine preferences for personality traits within the spectrum of extroversion and introversion. Based on previous research, the hypothesis of this study was that extroversion was valued higher than introversion. The differences between men and women’s preferences were also examined. The material being used was based on research on the fundamental lexical hypothesis and its semantic similarity to the Big Five. Seventy two students filled in a questionnaire where they were asked to rate 18 personality adjectives as positive or negative. The results indicate a preference for extroversion which supports the hypothesis. However, no significant difference between men and women could assuredly be established. / Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka preferenser för personlighetsdrag inom spektret extroversion och introversion. Med utgångspunkt från tidigare studier ställdes hypotesen att extroversion värderas högre än introversion. Dessutom undersöktes om preferenserna skiljer mellan kvinnor och män. Materialet som användes var baserad på studier om den fundamentala lexikala hypotesen och dess semantiska likhet till the Big Five. Sjuttiotvå studenter fick besvara en enkät där de ombads bedöma 18 personlighetsadjektiv som positiva eller negativa. Resultatet visar en generell preferens för extroverta personlighetsadjektiv vilket stödjer studiens hypotes. Någon säker skillnad mellan mäns och kvinnors preferenser gick inte att iaktta.

För att uppnå självförverkligande är det generellt fördelaktigt att vara initiativtagande,utåtriktad och pratglad, snarare än tillbakadragen, tystlåten och eftertänksam. Har dessa olikapersonlighetsegenskaper betydelse för människors välmående? Syftet med denna studie varatt undersöka 1) om personlighetsdraget extroversion-introversion kan förklaralivstillfredsställelse och känsla av sammanhang (KASAM) hos svenska studenter och 2) omKASAM har en modererande effekt på sambandet mellan extroversion-introversion ochlivstillfredställelse. En enkätundersökning utfördes med 163 svenska universitetsstudenter.Resultatet av regressionsanalyser visade att extroversion predicerar både livstillfredsställelseoch KASAM, och att KASAM har en modererande effekt på sambandet mellan extroversionoch livstillfredsställelse. Vi kan dra slutsatsen att extroverta personer känner högrelivstillfredsställelse, och att hög KASAM har en modererande effekt på detta samband. Merspecifikt, att extroverta personer med hög KASAM, troligen också känner höglivstillfredsställelse. Huruvida man är utåtriktad eller tillbakadragen har således betydelse förmänniskors välmående.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka personlighet och dess eventuella kausala samband med konstnärlig kreativitet. Femfaktormodellen användes för att undersöka personlighetsdragen öppenhet, extroversion och neuroticism. Begreppet kreativitet beskrivs genom tidigare forskning och konstnärlig kreativitet utgör grunden för studien. En kortare pilotstudie genomfördes för att testa förståelsen av mätinstrumentet för kreativitet, som tidigare översatts från engelska till svenska. I undersökningen ingick 89 respondenter som besvarade en online-enkät utlagd i facebookgruppen “studenter vid högskolan i Skövde”. Resultatet visade att personlighetsdraget öppenhet predicerar konstnärlig kreativitet. Resultaten för personlighetsdragen extroversion och neuroticism visade inte på någon predicering av konstnärlig kreativitet. Dock visade resultatet att facetten sällskaplighet för personlighetsdraget extroversion predicerar den konstnärligt kreativa domänen dans, medan personlighetsdraget neuroticism och facetten depression predicerar den konstnärligt kreativa domänen kreativt skrivande. Därigenom kunde följande slutsats dras: ett flertal av studiens respondenter uttrycker sig på ett konstnärligt kreativt sätt och vilken typ av konstnärligt kreativt uttryckssätt som individen föredrar beror på individens personlighet. / The purpose of this study was to investigate personality and it’s potential causality with artistic creativity. The five-factor model was used to investigate the personality traits openness, extraversion and neuroticism. Creativity is described by earlier research and artistic creativity creates the basic of this study. A short pilot-study was performed to evaluate the understanding of the instrument for creativity, that had been translated earlier from english to swedish. The sample used consisted of 89 respondents, who participated in an online-survey posted at a facebook-group named “studenter vid högskolan i Skövde”. The results showed that the personality trait openness predicts artistic creativity. The results of the personality traits extraversion and neuroticism did not show any predictability of artistic creativity. However, the results showed that the facet gregariousness from the personality trait extraversion predicts the artistic creative domain of dance, while the personality trait neuroticism and the facet depression predicts the artistic creative domain creative writing. Thereby the following conclusion could be made: several respondents of this study are expressing themselves in an artistic creative way and what kind of artistic creative expressions they use is defined by the personality of the person.

Darbo tikslas - nustatyti ar nuteistųjų asmenybės bruožų, agresyvumo ir priklausomybę sukeliančių medžiagų vartojimas siejasi su agresijos apraiškomis nusikaltimo metu. Tyrime dalyvavo 197 vyrai (nuteistieji), kurių vidutinis amžius 26,87 metų. Tiriamuosius sudarė 108 Pravieniškių 1-ųjų pataisos namų nuteistieji, kurių vidutinis amžius 25,04 metai ir 89 Pravieniškių 3-ųjų pataisos namų nuteistieji, kurių amžiaus vidurkis – 29,09 metai. Jauniausias tiriamasis 18 metų, o vyriausias 60. Asmenybės bruožų įvertinimui buvo naudojamas H. ir S. Eysenck klausimyno lietuviškas variantas, kurį sudaro 101 teiginys, agresyvumui įvertinti - A.Bass – Darki klausimynas, alkoholio vartojimui – CAGE skalė, o rūkymo ir narkotinių medžiagų vartojimo įvertinimui buvo įtraukti atskiri klausimai. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, jog vyrų grupės psichotiškumo, ekstraversijos ir neurotiškumo skalių vidurkiai yra aukštesni už normas lietuviškoje populiacijoje, tuo tarpu melo skalės vidurkis yra mažesnis už normos. Taip pat pastebėta, jog nuteistieji su labiau išreikštu agresyvumu pasižymi aukštesniais psichotiškumo ir ekstraversijos rodikliai, o aukštesni neurotiškumo rodikliai siejasi su aukštu agresyvumu ir priešiškumu. Nuteistieji intensyviau vartojantys opiodus, haliucinogenus, stimuliantus, slopinančias medžiagas ir alkoholį ir narkotines medžiagas (polinarkomanija) kartu yra aukštesnio psichotiškumo. Tuo tarpu aukštesnio neurotiškumo nuteistieji intensyviau rūko ir vartoja alkoholį. Intensyviau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of the study is to determine whether the convicts of personality traits, of aggression and use of addictive substances related to criminal aggression. The subjects of the study were 197 men (convicts), with a mean age of 26.87 years. The research included 105 convicts in Pravieniskes penitentiary No. 1 and 89 convicts in Pravieniskes penitentiary No.3. Age of participants was from 18 to 60 years old. Lithuanian version of H. and S. Eysenck personality (EPQ) was used. Respondents were asked to fill in the form of 101 questions. Assess the aggression was used A. Bass - Dark questionnaire and assess the alcohol consumption - CAGE scale. Smoking and drug use were included in the assessment of individual issues. The results of the study showed that men's group of psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism scales are higher than average rates of the Lithuanian population, while the scale lies below the average rate. It was also noted that inmates with more aggressiveness expressed have higher rates of psychoticism and extraversion, and higher neuroticism indicators associated with high aggressiveness and hostility. Convicts step using opiates, hallucinogens, stimulant, suppress substances and alcohol and drugs with a higher psychoticism. Meanwhile, higher neuroticism convicts intensify smoking and use alcohol. The more intensive use alcohol is more pronounced condemnation of extraversion. The inmates who more intensive use alcohol, kanabinoid, hallucinogens, stimulant and... [to full text]

This research examined several independent variables and their prediction of perceived freedom in leisure (PFL). Four instruments were utilized to collect data from research subjects regarding the independent variables of shyness, extroversion, gender and activity preference style and the dependent variable, PFL. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were calculated for each scale employed in the research. Reliabilities for the scales within this research were as follows: Stanford Shyness Survey (.78), Adult Short Form of the Leisure Diagnostic Battery (.92), three scales from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Extroversion (.85), Neuroticism (.79), and LIE (.75), and the Activity Preference Style Scales - Active (.45), Group (.53), and Risk (.67). Due to the low alpha reliabilities of two of the Activity Preference Style Scales, Active and Group, factor analysis was performed in an attempt to construct new sub-scales with higher alpha reliabilities. This resulted in some of the new sub-scales, as well as the original Active and Group scales being used in the data analysis. The sample was comprised of 325 undergraduate students enrolled in a required history or English class. The age of the sample ranged from 17 to 50 with a mean age of 20.4. Questionnaires were given out during class time and students were instructed to complete them at home and return them to their instructor. Respondents were categorized into six non-independent groups: all subjects, not shy subjects, shy subjects, and three shyness sub-groups — shy now and in the past, shy now but not in the past and shy in the past. Stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was employed with four different sets of Activity Preference Style scales and sub-scales in the prediction of PFL for the six subject groupings. Regardless of a subject's level of shyness, extroversion, and in several other cases, one of the activity style variables were the only significant predictors of PFL. The best predictor of PFL for not shy subjects was risk.

This thesis examines how three nineteenth-century British novels purvey and critique contemporary standards regarding social performance and reticence and the strains such standards place on those whose dispositions disincline them to conform to the regulations for decorum articulated in conduct books of the time. Utilizing the psychological lens of introversion and extroversion alongside the cognitive narrative theories of Alan Palmer and Lisa Zunshine, this thesis investigates the construction of individual character identities through the reading of interactions among multiple fictional minds in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860).