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Scores on Three Personality Variables as a Function of Age, Sex and Social Class
Author(s) -
EYSENCK SYBIL B. G.,
EYSENCK H. J.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1969.tb00588.x
Subject(s) - psychoticism , neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , psychology , social class , personality , developmental psychology , class (philosophy) , social function , epidemiology , clinical psychology , demography , big five personality traits , social psychology , medicine , humanities , artificial intelligence , sociology , political science , computer science , law , philosophy
An inventory containing 20 extraversion (E), 20 neuroticism (N) and 20 psychoticism (P) questions was administered to 1423 adult males, and 968 females, as well as to 1400 students of both sexes and to 327 housewives. Analysis by age, sex and social class showed that young people are high on E, high on N and high on P; that males are high on E, high on P, and low on N; and that middle‐class people are low on E, low on N, and low on P. Results were compared with previous findings, and with expectations from epidemiological research.