Personality and Fears |
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Authors: | Frank H. Farley Wallace L. Mealiea |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Wisconsin , Madison, Wisconsin, USA;2. Dalhousie University , Halifax, Canada |
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Abstract: | The contribution to self-reported fears of individual differences in extraversion-introversion (E) and neuroticism (N) was studied in 102 female college students. Four groups of 20 Ss each were constituted - high E high N, high E low N, low E high N, and low E low N. A fear survey schedule and the Eysenck Personality Inventory were employed. By analysis of variance, total fear scores were a significant function of N but not E. Extreme or phobic fears were a significant function of neither personality dimensions, though the N effect approached conventional significance levels. Correlational analyses on the full sample confirmed these findings, except that a statistically significant though slight (6 percent) proportion of extreme fear variance was accountable by N. |
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