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The Eysenck Personality Inventory in Chronic Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ihsan Al-Issa*
Affiliation:
Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey

Extract

Common observation indicates that some chronic schizophrenics are more extraverted than others. According to Eysenck (1960, p. 11) neuroticism is a distinct factor from psychoticism; one would therefore expect it to manifest itself to a varying extent in different chronic schizophrenics. These considerations suggested that it would be of interest to discover whether extraversion and neuroticism in a sample of chronic schizophrenics, as measured by their extraversion and neuroticism scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1963), a modified form of the Maudsley Personality Inventory (Eysenck, 1956), were significantly related to their psychiatric symptoms and to other characteristics such as sex, age and work efficiency.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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