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Personality, Psychophysiology, and Performance
Author(s) -
Roessler Robert
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1973.tb00789.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychophysiology , personality , id, ego and super ego , anxiety , personality psychology , psychomotor learning , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , cognition , neuroscience , psychiatry
Research relating personality variables to physiological responsivity and to motor performance is reviewed. Trait anxiety is not related to physiology but ego strength is related to change in physiological levels. Skin conductance is most consistently related to ego strength across experimental conditions and across subjects. Other physiological variables are also related to ego strength in certain subjects under certain conditions. Data relating ego strength to other personality variables and to psychomotor performance is also reviewed. A theory relating personality to physiological change is proposed.