Neuroticism and Anxiety

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exactly the same and have the same emotions and mannerisms. There is not one distinct answer to why different people enjoy different activities and carry themselves in a different fashion. A few worthy explanations are, that in early life experiences one realizes, through their actions, what is positive and negative in their own eye’s and what they enjoy. Conflicts and solutions as a child are also said to shape the personality of an individual because they make the individual think hard about their decision and how it will affect them. Other psychologists have thought, it has to do with the biological makeup of a person. This is also very plausible because many children turn out to be distinctly similar to their parents and often resemble them in actions and the way they handle consequential situation.
The Eysenck personality Inventory (EPI) is a test, which measures personality for two distinct characteristics. The two characteristics being examined are extroversion and neuroticism. This test is a series of 24 yes or no questions, which measures the two traits. In the test there is also a “lie scale” to detect if a person is not providing their true feelings on the questions. This lie scale also provides that the answers were thought out and not randomly chosen. After all this has been completed, re-testing may occur to provide assurance and concretness of the results.
The Eysenck personality trait that will be assessed in this particular study will be neuroticism, which is a trait dimension that refers to emotional instability and maladjustment (Gleitman, Fridlund & Reisberg, 1999). If a person scores high on this trait, the individual tends to be emotionally over responsive and would has a hard time returning back to a normal state after any emotional experience. This type of person will generally be tense, nervous and easily excitable and they will also frequently complain of minor somatic upsets such as ins...