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Relations between Emotional and Social Behaviour: A Questionnaire Study of Individual Differences
Author(s) -
BRAND CHRISTOPHER R.
Publication year - 1972
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.2044-8260.1972.tb00773.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , psychology , personality psychology , aggression , personality , developmental psychology , factorial analysis , clinical psychology , social psychology , big five personality traits , statistics , mathematics
In view of recent ethological and social psychological studies, it was hypothesized that relations between emotional and social behaviour might be found in the area of individual differences. Young men seen at an out‐patient casualty unit of a general hospital were invited to complete a questionnaire; the response rate was 74 per cent, yielding an n of 99. Subjects proved to be drawn from all social classes, and 25 of them were not attending the unit as patients. Manual workers appeared more ‘aggressive’ ( P < 0·001) than non‐manual workers. As hypothesized, relations were found between scales of Fearfulness and Dependence ( r = 0·4 r ; P < 0·001) and scales of Aggressiveness and Social Extraversion ( r = 0·35; P < 0·001). Two rotational solutions to a factorial analysis are compared. It appears that the solution involving factors resembling Extraversion and Neuroticism is not satisfactory, and that the personalities of young men might be described by three orthogonal dimensions of Aggression, Inadequacy and Defensiveness.