The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire about Interpersonal Difficulties for Adolescents (QIDA; Inglés, Méndez, & Hidalgo, 2000). In Study 1, the questionnaire was administered to a sample of 4,240 high school pupils. Exploratory factor analysis identified five factors accounting for 42.86% of the variance: Assertiveness, Heterosexual Relationships,...

The main objective of the current study was to investigate the relationships between Zuckerman’s (1979) sensation seeking and Eysenck and Eysenck’s (1976) personality scales, and how these relate to hostility within a prison population, to explore whether they could be conceptualized in terms of two socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking factors. Participants included 79 adult male offen...

We report the first genome-wide scan of adolescent personality. We conducted a genome-wide scan to detect linkage for measures of adolescent Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Lie from the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Data are based on 1,280 genotyped Australian adolescent twins and their siblings. The highest linkage peaks were found on chromosomes 16 and 19 for Neurotic...

The Short Interpersonal Reactions Inventory [SIRI (Grossarth-Maticek, Eysenck, Vetter & Schmidt, Topics in Health, 1988)] is a questionnaire designed to measure personality traits predisposing to disease, notably ischaemic heart disease and cancer. It has been criticized by several authors in terms of design, scoring and validity. In a sample of 762 Australian twins taking part in a genetic stu...

the aim of this research is to study the relations between personality types (introverted and extroverted), intelligence, sexuality and semantic conditioning. for this purpose, 94 subjects were selected through systematic random sampling from among the students of the first and second semesters of psychology at islamic azad university of roudhen. eysenck personality test and raven iq test were ...

Objectives: To determine whether personality is related to medical students’ attitudes towards learning communication skills and self-ratings on communication skills. Methods: 524 firstand 507 second-year medical students completed the Communications Skills Attitudes Scale and rated their own communication skills. First-year students answered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and second-ye...

AIM In this research, we attempted at exploring the relationships among urban left-behind children's internet-addiction, personality traits and mental health. METHODS In the form of three relevant questionnaires (Adolescent Pathological Internet Use Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Children's Edition in Chinese and Mental Health Test), 796 urban left-behind children in China were inv...

In this book Eysenck presents a solution to modern social problems, namely that his own particular branch of behaviourist psychology can offer modern civilization a way out of its social dilemmas. Education , psychiatry, sexuality, pornography and political attitudes are considered in turn. Social action, Eysenck argues, should take account of inborn differences of personality and intelligence....