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The Genetical Relationship of Impulsiveness and Sensation Seeking to Eysenck's Personality Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

N. G. Martin ,
L. J. Eaves  and
D. W. Fulker
N. G. Martin*
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham
L. J. Eaves
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham
D. W. Fulker
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
Department of Population Biology, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia

Abstract

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The genetical analysis of covariance structures is used to explore the genetical and environmental intercorrelations of impulsiveness and sensation seeking factors and their conformity to Eysenck's principal personality dimensions. The independent dimensions of psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism, and lie scale are not found to give a very satisfactory account of the genetical factor structure. In particular, it is clear that impulsiveness and sensation seeking are not simple reflections of extraversion.

Keywords

Genetic analysisCovariance structuresImpulsivenessSensation seekingExtraversionEysenck Personality QuestionnaireTwin study
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 197 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1979

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