Psychoticism

Psychoticism is one of three independent personality characteristics of the PEN model of personality psychologists Hans Jürgen Eysenck, next of extraversion and neuroticism. The dimension should cover originally attenuated features of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in healthy people. However, a relationship has not been empirically confirmed. For " psychoticism " associated features are aggressiveness, callousness, egocentricity, impulsivity, creativity and anti- sociality. Basis of this personality dimension is also the assumption of a continuum between healthy and psychotic. As a result, highly psychotic people would make up a single Extrempol and achieve the highest Psychotizismuswerte accordingly in personality tests. The other Extrempol is called realism or impulse control. People from this area behave realistically and adapted and would likely achieve the lowest Psychotizismuswerte in tests.

Capture

Is detected psychoticism with the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ( REPQ ). The short form of the questionnaire consists of twelve questions on the psychoticism dimension such as:

• "Do you wish sometimes that other people are afraid of you? "
• " Do you do drugs, have unpredictable or dangerous effects? "

Reception

In contrast to the other two personality dimensions of extraversion (on the dimensional axis extraversion / introversion ) and neuroticism (emotional lability ) of the PEN model could not enforce the psychoticism dimensions in scientific discussion. The construct appears to be out of focus and heterogeneous. The acquisition by means of a questionnaire proved to be difficult because the answers to psychoticism issues are often distorted in the sense of social desirability. In addition, the construct correlated with the Big Five dimensions of agreeableness and conscientiousness.