European Journal of Personality · 2004 · 47 citations · 19 references
Social SciencesBehavioral SciencesPsychologyIndividual DifferencesPersonality PsychologyPsychometricsCorrectional PsychologyPersonality AssessmentPersonality TraitsTrait StructureTrait TheoryBig Five Personality ModelEysenck Personality TheoryEysenckian Personality TheoryPersonality StabilityPersonality Trait StabilityPersonality Trait Structure
The study examined how compliance relates to Eysenck’s psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism dimensions. Participants from prison, college, and university settings completed the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Compliance was positively linked to neuroticism and negatively to extraversion across all groups, while psychoticism correlations varied by group; a quadrant analysis revealed highest compliance among unstable introverts and lowest among stable extraverts, supporting person‑type theories. © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The aim of the study was to assess the relationship of compliance with Eysenck's three personality dimensions: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism. Three groups of participants (prison inmates, college students, and university students) completed the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). As predicted, compliance correlated positively with neuroticism and negatively with extraversion in all groups, whereas for psychoticism the correlation was positive among the prison inmates, negative for college students, and non‐significant for university students. A quadrant analysis according to Eysenck's original two‐dimensional framework (neuroticism–stability and introversion–extraversion) showed that compliance was highest among unstable introverts and lowest among stable extraverts. The findings are discussed in relation to recent work on person‐type approaches. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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