Psychoticism

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Psychoticism is an independent three personality characteristics of the PEN model of personality psychologist Hans Eysenck , in addition to e xtraversion and N eurotizismus . The dimension was originally intended to capture attenuated characteristics of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in healthy people. However, a connection could not be confirmed empirically. Characteristics belonging to "psychoticism" are aggressiveness , cold feeling , egocentricity , impulsiveness , creativity and anti-sociality . This personality dimension is also based on the assumption of a continuum between healthy and psychotic. Accordingly, highly psychotic persons would form one extreme pole and accordingly achieve the highest psychoticism scores in personality tests. The other extreme pole is called realism or impulse control. People in this area behave realistically and adjusted and would likely achieve the lowest psychoticism scores in tests. Psychoticism could not prevail due to its fuzzy definitions and is therefore no longer used in today's personality psychology.

Capture

Psychoticism is recorded with the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (REPQ) . The short form of the questionnaire comprises twelve questions on the psychoticism dimension such as B .:

  • "Do you sometimes wish that other people would be afraid of you?"
  • "Do you use drugs that have unpredictable or dangerous effects?"

reception

In contrast to the other two personality dimensions extraversion (on the dimension axis extraversion / introversion) and neuroticism (emotional lability) of the PEN model, the psychoticism dimensions could not prevail in the scientific discussion. The construct appears too vague and heterogeneous . Recording by means of a questionnaire turned out to be difficult because the answers to questions about psychoticism are often falsified in terms of social desirability . The construct also correlates with the Big Five dimensions of tolerance and conscientiousness.

literature

  • Eysenck, HJ u. Rachman, S .: Neuroses Berlin 1972
  • Francis, LJ, Lewis, CA, Ziebertz, HG (2006) 'The short-form revised Eysenck personality Questionnaire (EPQ-S): A German edition'. Social Behavior and Personality, 34 (2), 197-204
  • Eysenck, HJ & Eysenck, SBG (1976). Psychoticism as a Dimension of Personality. London: Hodder and Stoughton
  • Eysenck, SBG & Eysenck, HJ The measurement of psychoticism: a study of factor stability and reliability. Brit. J. Soc. Clin. Psychol. 7: 286-94, 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comparison of EPI and psychoticism scales with measures of the five-factor model of personality., McCrae, Robert R .; Costa, Paul T., Personality and Individual Differences, Vol 6 (5), 1985.

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