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S B Eysenck

Publications and source records attributed to S B Eysenck.

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PubMed1980

Psychoticism and thought disorder in psychiatric patients.

Schizophrenic patients, whether thought-disordered or not, were found to perform worse than other patients when sorting schematic faces, but not when sorting equivalent abstract material. This information-processing deficit was found to be related to self-rated psychoticism scores as well as to factor scores on the factor of schizophrenia derived from the analysis of psychiatrists' ratings of the patients on a large number of symptoms.

Adjustment Disorders↗
PubMed1977

The place of impulsiveness in a dimensional system of personality description.

Three questionnaire studies are reported in which sets of items traditionally used to measure impulsiveness were intercorrelated were correlated with measures of the major personality dimensions E (extraversion), N (neuroticism) and P (psychoticism), and also with the L (lie; dissimulation) scale. It It was found that impulsiveness in the broad sense (ImpB) breaks down into four factors (narrow impusliveness or ImpN, risk-taking, non-planning and liveliness) which are replicable from sample to sample and from males to females. These factors are positively correlated with each other and also with sociability to varying degrees. ImpB correlates quite well with extraversion, but even better with psychoticism; ImpN correlates positively with N and P, suggesting that this trait is somewhat pathological. It is suggested that the distinction between ImpB and ImpN is crucial for the discussion of the nature and measurement of extraversion and also for future experimental work on the causal background and experimental testing of impulsive behaviour patterns.

Adolescent↗