neuroticism

Examples of neuroticism in the following topics:

• The Five-Factor Model

  • Neuroticism also refers to an individual's degree of emotional stability and impulse control.
  • People high in neuroticism tend to experience emotional instability and are characterized as angry, impulsive, and hostile.
  • Watson and Clark (1984) found that people reporting high levels of neuroticism also tend to report feeling anxious and unhappy.
  • In contrast, people who score low in neuroticism tend to be calm and even-tempered.
  • Neuroticism and extroversion tend to decline slightly with age (Donnellan & Lucas; Terracciano et al.).

• Allport's, Cattell's, and Eysenck's Trait Theories of Personality

  • He believed personality is largely governed by biology, and he viewed people as having two specific personality dimensions: extroversion vs. introversion and neuroticism vs. stability.
  • In the neuroticism/stability dimension, people high on neuroticism tend to be anxious; they tend to have an overactive sympathetic nervous system and even with low stress, their bodies and emotional state tend to go into a flight-or-fight reaction.
  • He also hypothesized that neuroticism was determined by individual differences in the limbic system, the part of the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory.

• The Brain and Personality

  • It was an investigation carried out in which identical and fraternal twins, ages 11 and 12, were tested for neuroticism.
  • Eysenck developed a model of personality based on neuroticism and a second factor, extroversion.
  • Eysenck also hypothesized that neuroticism was determined by individual differences in the limbic system, the part of the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory.

• Overview of Personality Assessment

  • According to the five factor model, the five dimensions of personality lies along a continuum of opposing poles and include Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
  • Eysenck's inventory focuses on three dimensions: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism.

• Incentive Theory of Motivation and Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

  • Other studies provide evidence that the effectiveness of extrinsic motivators varies depending on factors like self-esteem, locus of control (the extent to which someone believes they can control events that affect them), self-efficacy (how someone judges their own competence to complete tasks and reach goals), and neuroticism (a personality trait characterized by anxiety, moodiness, worry, envy, and jealousy).

• Personality Psychology

  • The five-factor model is the most widely accepted trait theory today: it includes the five factors of openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, which each occur along a continuum.