The purpose of the study was to assess and investigate the personality characteristics of national level male and female gymnasts One hundred national level males (N=60) and females (N=40) gymnasts were randomly selected during the Junior national gymnastics championships to serve as the subjects for this study. The mean age and SD of male and female gymnasts of national levels were 19.90 ± 1.5...

Just over two hundred telephone sales sta€ completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Extraversion was highly correlated both positively and negatively with three of the four LSQ measures. The lie scale from the EPI was also systematically correlated with the Activist and Re ̄ector scales of the LSQ. Both the EPI and LSQ traits ...

This study investigated the relationship between emotional rumination and cortisol secretion during stress. Subjects were 51 student nurses undergoing a written examination as part of their training and urinary-free cortisol was assayed from samples taken immediately after the examination and again three weeks later. Cortisol difference scores were obtained. expressed as a function of creatinin...

The paper investigates the relationships between personality traits and expert manual annotation of unscripted speech. The analysis is based on the results of a psycholinguistic experiment in which the participants were asked to annotate sentence boundaries in transcriptions of Russian spoken monologues. Personality traits were measured using the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Five Facto...

The authors have investigated the effect of personality, as measured with the Eysenck Personality Inventory, on the incidence of cancer among 1,031 persons participating in a Danish health survey in 1976-1977 and followed up for 20 years. They thereby accrued a total of 19,993 person-years. The expected number of cancer cases was estimated on the basis of age-, sex-, and site-specific incidence...

Eysenck (1981) proposed that the personality dimension of introversion- extraversion (E) reflects individual differences in a cortical arousal system modulated by reticulothalamic- cortical pathways: it is chronically more active in introverts relative to extraverts and influences cognitive performance in interaction with task parameters. A circuit with connections to this system, including the...

The study investigated the relationship between personality traits of extroversion-introversion and neuroticism and achievement of Nigerian adolescents in sports. The design of the study was correlation survey design. The sample was 356 students from the 3 education zones in Abia State of Nigeria who have won different prizes in sporting competitions both at local, state and national levels. Th...

BACKGROUND Paternal involvement in pregnancy has been recognized to have an impact on new-born's outcomes and only recently got under the spot light of mental health perspective. The aim of this study was to test differences in paternal involvement in pregnancy, perceived stress and relationship quality regarding complications in pregnancy and pregnancy duration (gestational weeks) in the last ...

To investigate the association between shyness and Internet usage, 88 undergraduate students completed the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the Online Cognition Scale, a computer/Internet familiarity scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (short version) and the Abbreviated Duke Social Support Index. Significant correlations were found between shyness, Internet use, and perso...