Hans Eysenck was a German psychologist who specialized in the fields of personality and intelligence. However, Eysenck also did work in the fields of behavioral therapy, astrology and parapsychology, sexual behavior and smoking and health. Although, Eysenck’s most influential work is in that of personality psychology, where he developed the basic concept of personality which many major personality psychologists would base their work off of, likewise expanding upon many of Eysenck’s concepts. Hans Eysenck was born in 1916, in Berlin, Germany. Eysenck lived in Nazi Germany, however in 1934 due to Eysenck’s personal beliefs and hatred for the Nazi party he fled Germany, moving to London. In London Eysenck began university and thus his
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Eysenck concluded that extraverts would partake in intercourse earlier in life than introverts; likewise that introverts are less likely to be sexual promiscuous. Those with high scores on the scale of neuroticism, were more likely to see sexual interactions as a conflict, due to the amounts of social interaction; although men with high neuroticism scores masturbate often, while women have less orgasms overall and more complaints with menstruation. However those with high scores of psychoticism, are likely to have sex lives with less personal attachment; likewise, high scores of psychoticism are likely to partake in sexual kinks for example, Masochism. With this Eysenck developed a sex questionnaire, which was used to determine sexual attitudes of both males and females, Eysenck used this questionnaire along with EPQ in order to conduct an experiment which determine correlations between personality and sexual attitudes. The experiment involved “423 men and 379 female unmarried students aged 18 to 22, from various universities and colleges around Britain, who also completed the EPQ” (Wilson 265). Once both questionnaires were taken, analysis of data was started in order to develop correlations between personality and sexual attitudes; the experiment concluded that there is a correlation between personality and sexual attitudes and proved that Eysenck’s theories on his personality types’ sexual attitudes were
Eysenck concluded that extraverts would partake in intercourse earlier in life than introverts; likewise that introverts are less likely to be sexual promiscuous. Those with high scores on the scale of neuroticism, were more likely to see sexual interactions as a conflict, due to the amounts of social interaction; although men with high neuroticism scores masturbate often, while women have less orgasms overall and more complaints with menstruation. However those with high scores of psychoticism, are likely to have sex lives with less personal attachment; likewise, high scores of psychoticism are likely to partake in sexual kinks for example, Masochism. With this Eysenck developed a sex questionnaire, which was used to determine sexual attitudes of both males and females, Eysenck used this questionnaire along with EPQ in order to conduct an experiment which determine correlations between personality and sexual attitudes. The experiment involved “423 men and 379 female unmarried students aged 18 to 22, from various universities and colleges around Britain, who also completed the EPQ” (Wilson 265). Once both questionnaires were taken, analysis of data was started in order to develop correlations between personality and sexual attitudes; the experiment concluded that there is a correlation between personality and sexual attitudes and proved that Eysenck’s theories on his personality types’ sexual attitudes were