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NEO‐PAVLOVIAN PROPERTIES OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND EYSENCK'S PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS
Author(s) -
Loo Robert
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597908246737
Subject(s) - psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , dynamism , personality , developmental psychology , multivariate statistics , multilevel model , clinical psychology , social psychology , big five personality traits , statistics , extraversion and introversion , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
An hierarchical multivariate approach was used to examine the relationships between the neo‐Pavlovian properties of higher nervous activity, strength, dynamism, and mobility, as measured by motor reaction‐time tasks and Eysenck's personality model as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Eighty subjects, 40 of each sex, completed tasks measuring strength, dynamism, and mobility followed by completion of the questionnaire. Standardized composite estimates of the six primary factors extracted from the measures of the three properties and of the 16 primary factors from the questionnaire were subjected to hierarchical factor analyses. Four orthogonal second‐order factors were extracted which showed meaningful relationships involving the Pavlovian and Eysenckian constructs.