Hans Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist who developed a highly influential trait theory of personality. He identified three key personality factors through factor analysis: extroversion versus introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability, and psychoticism versus self-control. Eysenck was a professor of psychology in London for nearly 30 years and authored over 80 books and 1600 journal articles, making major contributions to the scientific understanding of personality and mental illness. He died in 1997 from a brain tumor.
Hans Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist who developed a highly influential trait theory of personality. He identified three key personality factors through factor analysis: extroversion versus introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability, and psychoticism versus self-control. Eysenck was a professor of psychology in London for nearly 30 years and authored over 80 books and 1600 journal articles, making major contributions to the scientific understanding of personality and mental illness. He died in 1997 from a brain tumor.
Hans Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist who developed a highly influential trait theory of personality. He identified three key personality factors through factor analysis: extroversion versus introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability, and psychoticism versus self-control. Eysenck was a professor of psychology in London for nearly 30 years and authored over 80 books and 1600 journal articles, making major contributions to the scientific understanding of personality and mental illness. He died in 1997 from a brain tumor.
Hans Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist who developed a highly influential trait theory of personality. He identified three key personality factors through factor analysis: extroversion versus introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability, and psychoticism versus self-control. Eysenck was a professor of psychology in London for nearly 30 years and authored over 80 books and 1600 journal articles, making major contributions to the scientific understanding of personality and mental illness. He died in 1997 from a brain tumor.
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HANS EYSENCK
By : Helmi Habibi Hermansyah
NPM : 12519791 Class : 1PA09 Biography Hans Eysenck ■ Hans Jürgen Eysenck, PhD, DSc born in Germany on March 4, 1916. Both his parents are celebrities. At the age of 2, Eysenck was forced to be raised by his grandmother because his parents were divorced. After graduating from high school, Eysenck decided to move to England because he hated Hitler and the Nazis. He received his PhD in 1940 from University College London (UCL) in psychology. ■ Eysenck was professor of psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London, form 1955 to 1983. He was a major contributor to the modern scientific theory of personality and a brilliant teacher who helped found treatment for mental illnesses. Eysenck also created and developed a distinctive dimensional model of personality structure based on empirical factor- analytic research, attempting to anchor these factors in biogenetic variation. In 1981, Eysenck became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. He was the founding editor of the international journal Personality and Individual Differences, and wrote about 80 books and more than 1600 journal articles. His son Michael Eysenck is also a noted psychology professor. Hans Eysenck died of a brain tumour on September 4, 1997. Hans Eysenck Theory ■ Eysenck’s Personality Theory ■ Hans Eysenck developed a very influential trait theory of personality, which has successful infiltrated the public mindset with regards to how we think about personality in day-to-day life. ■ Using factor analysis to devise his theory, Eysenck identified three factors of personality: extroversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. ■ Each of the Eysenck Theory factors is a bipolar dimension, meaning that each has a direct opposite: ■ Extroversion vs. Introversion ■ Neuroticism vs. Emotional Stability ■ Psychoticism vs. Self-Control Defining the Eysenck Theory Factors ■ Extroversion : an orientation of one’s interests and energies toward the outer world of people and things rather than the inner world of subjective experience. Extroverts are relatively more outgoing, gregarious, sociable, and openly expressive. ■ Introversion : orientation toward the internal private world of one’s self and one’s inner thoughts and feelings, rather than toward the outer world of people and things. Introvert are relatively more withdrawn, retiring, reserved, quite, and deliberate. They may tend to mute or guard expression of positive affect, adopt more skeptical views or positions, and prefer to work independently. ■ Neuroticism (unstable) : characterized by a chronic level of emotional instability and proneness to psychological distress. ■ Emotionally stable : characterized by predictability and consistency in emotional reactions in absence of rapid mood changes. ■ Psychoticism : a dimension of personality characterized by aggression, impulsivity, aloofness, anti- social behavior, indicating a suspectibility to psychosis and psychopatic disorders. ■ Self control : the ability to be in command of one’s behavior (overt, covert, emotional, or physical) and to restrain or inhibit one’s impulses.