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Venturesomeness, impulsiveness, and Eysenck's personality dimensions: a study among Australian adolescents.

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  • 1School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia.

The Journal of Genetic Psychology
|March 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

This study explores personality traits in adolescents, finding that impulsiveness and venturesomeness are multidimensional. Their subfactors relate differently to extraversion, emotional stability, and psychoticism, challenging narrow views of impulsiveness.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Adolescent Psychology

Background:

  • Eysenckian personality theory traditionally links extraversion to sociability and impulsiveness.
  • Recent research associates impulsiveness with psychoticism, with subfactors showing differential relations.
  • Previous work suggests nuanced relationships between impulsiveness subfactors and personality dimensions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the structures of impulsiveness and venturesomeness in Australian adolescents.
  • To examine the associations between impulsiveness, venturesomeness, and the Eysenckian personality dimensions: extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism.
  • To test the hypothesis that impulsiveness is not inherently pathological.

Main Methods:

  • A sample of 170 Australian adolescents participated in the study.

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  • Factor analysis was used to explore the underlying structures of impulsiveness and venturesomeness.
  • Correlational analyses examined the relationships between personality trait subfactors.

    • Main Results:

    • Both impulsiveness and venturesomeness were found to be multidimensional constructs.
    • The identified subfactors of impulsiveness and venturesomeness showed slight variations from Eysenck's proposed structures.
    • No evidence was found to support the view that impulsiveness, when narrowly defined, is pathological.
    • Specific subfactors of impulsiveness and venturesomeness demonstrated differential relationships with extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism.

    Conclusions:

    • Impulsiveness and venturesomeness are complex, multidimensional traits in adolescents.
    • The findings support a nuanced understanding of how impulsiveness and venturesomeness relate to broader personality dimensions.
    • These results have implications for personality theory and the assessment of adolescent psychological characteristics.