the present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. the participants were 80 male and female efl students of university of sistan and baluchestan who had studied efl at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. the participants were selected after excluding those who got l scores...

This review describes how measures of a prominent three-dimensional hierarchical model of personality traits relate to substance use. H. J. Eysenck proposed a biologically based model of personality that gave rise to related models such as those of J. A. Gray, C. R. Cloninger, and M. Zuckerman. The varying role of impulsivity--a trait related to disinhibition, approach motivation, novelty seeki...

the purpose of this study was to compare personality traits and anxiety and depression of iranian traditional wrestling athletes with wrestling, taekwondo and kabaddi athletes. 175 sportsmen were randomly selected using morgan and kerjesy table. eysenck personality inventory (epi) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) were used to collect the data. in addition to descriptive statisti...

The structure of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) is poorly understood, and applications have mostly been confined to the broad Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Lie scales. Using a hierarchical factoring procedure, we mapped the sequential differentiation of EPI scales from broad, molar factors to more specific, molecular factors, in a UK population sample of over 6500 persons. Replicable ...

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 ...

A prospective controlled study of acute low back pain in general practice was carried out. The presence of psychiatric illness was measured by use of the general health questionnaire (GHQ), by clinical assessment, and personality factors by use of the Eysenck personality inventory (EPI). It was found that overall the amount of psychiatric illness did not differ between patients with back pain a...

The relationship between psychological factors and alopecia areata is already a controversial issue. Previous researches have mainly focussed on the impact of stressors and occasionally the underlying psychiatric disorders. The relationship of personality with this disease has not been investigated. A group of alopecia areata patients ( n=31) was compared with a control group ( n=31) of age mat...

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...

Fifty married female neurotics from outpatient clinic of G. M. & Associated Hospitals, Lucknow and their husbands were evaluated to investigate psychological disturbances in these husbands and to find out its relationship with the nature, severity and duration, of psychiatric illness in the wives. Personality characteristics and neurotic symptoms of the spouses were assessed on Eysenck Personal...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have suggested that 54%-100% of patients with IBS may have associated psychiatric illness and personality pathology. This transversal controlled study was realized in order to evaluate anxiety and depression levels, as well as the personality characteristics of patients with IBS and to compare the results obtained with patients with episodes of depression and healthy...