Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper provides evidence that life goals matter substantially to subjective well-being (SWB). Non-zero sum goals, which include commitment to family, friends and social and political involvement, promote life satisfaction. Zero sum goals, including commitment to career…

Extraversion and Neuroticism are two fundamental dimensions of human personality that influence cognitive functioning in healthy subjects. Little is known about personality changes that may occur in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) nor about, in particular, their neurofunctional basis. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of…

We examined the possibility that teams composed primarily of individuals with personality characteristics conducive to team creativity (e.g., high extraversion, high openness to experience, low conscientiousness, high neuroticism, low agreeableness) would show synergistic increases in creativity when they experienced high levels of "team creative…

Surveyed adults (N=159) about money attitudes and general pathological tendencies of anxiety, neuroticism, and introversion. Results showed that problem money attitudes were significantly related to general pathological attitudes but not to each other. (LLL)

The present study investigates the hypothesis that the big five personality factors could exert two kinds of effects on career self-efficacy: (a) generalized or nonspecific effects and (b) domain-specific, content-correspondence effects. The hypothesis is examined using relationships of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory to 24 distinct domains of…

Explains dyslexia as a specific psychoneurotic syndrome. (HOD)

The author reviews his own and others' findings on the personality traits of psychoticism, neuroticism, and introversion and their relationship with creativity and originality. Findings show some correlation between creativity in the arts with introversion, neurotic behavior, and higher scores of psychoticism. (CL)

Advocates of the secularization thesis describe radical decline in the significance of the Christian tradition among young people in England. In this context, a sample of 5,808 pupils age 11 to 15 years provided data about their religious identity and practice and completed the short-form Revised Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (as a…

In this study of the discriminant, convergent, and incremental validity of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R), university students completed the APS-R, additional measures of perfectionism, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-Form S, and measures of self-esteem and depression. The results revealed expected significant, but not completely…

Neuroticism is a risk factor for mood and anxiety disorders and a strong predictor of subjective stress in non-Hispanics. This study examined neuroticism as a predictor of subjective acculturative stress in 122 Mexican American college students. Neuroticism was measured using the Revised Neuroticism Extroversion Openness Personality Inventory…

According to Piaget, a child's intellectual development undergoes a progressive socialization process, by assimilation and accommodation, to reach equilibrium with the adult environment. It is proposed that a disturbance in the process of adaptation to reality may lead to a neurotic response. For related articles, see TM 501 288 and 289. (RC)

Questions and answers are presented from an interview with a researcher on childhood mental illnesses. Dr. E. James Anthony responds to questions about such issues as the influence of parents on the development of child psychosis, the influence of age and ordinal position, advice about raising mentally healthy children, and the relationship…

Surveys empirical literature pertaining to phobias of blood, injury, or illness (BII); defines BII phobia as selectively associated with vasovagal fainting response upon exposure to phobic stimuli. Presents clinical, demographic, and etiological information from 15 BII phobics and suggests that BII phobia warrants diagnostic category separate from…

Tested 60 alcoholic outpatients matched with 60 normals on the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the IPAT-Anxiety Scale Questionniare. The alcoholic outpatients were beyond borderline in anxiety, lack of integrated development of self-sentiment, ego weakness, paranoid insecurity, guilt proneness and frustration tension. Neuroticism and anxiety…