This is the original work on which Hans Eysenck's fifty years of
research have been built. It introduced many new ideas about the
nature and measurement of personality into the field, related
personality to abnormal psychology, and demonstrated the
possibility of testing personality theory experimentally. The book
is the result of a concentrated and cooperative effort to discover
the main dimensions of personality, and to define them
operationally, that is, by means of strictly experimental,
quantitative procedures. More than three dozen separate researches
were carried out on some 10,000 normal and neurotic subjects by a
research team of psychologists and psychiatrists.
A special feature of this work is the close collaboration
between psychologists and psychiatrists. Eysenck believes that the
exploration of personality would have reached an advanced state
much earlier had such a collaboration been the rule rather than the
exception in studies of this kind. Both disciplines benefit by
working together on the many problems they have in common.
In his new introduction, Eysenck discusses the difficulty he had
in conveying this belief to scientists from opposite ends of the
psychology spectrum when he first began work on this book. He goes
on to explain the basis from which Dimensions of Personality
developed. Central to any concept of personality, he states, must
be hierarchies of traits organized into a dimensional system. The
two major dimensions he posited, neuroticism and extraversion, were
in disfavor with most scientists of personality at the time. Now
they form part of practically all descriptions of personality.
Dimensions of Personality is a landmark study and should be read by
both students and professionals in the fields of psychiatry,
psychology, and sociology.
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