How introspections concerning Cloninger's concepts of Temperament and Character influence Eysenckian personality structure

Abstract

Two studies examine the consequences of distinguishing between self-report responses on the Eysenck Personality Profiler (Eysenck et al. The European Journal of Psychological Assessment 8: 109-117, 1992) in terms of Cloninger's concepts of Temperament and Character (Cloninger et al. Archives of General Psychiatry 50: 975-990, 1993). Character is thought to reflect conscious, maturation-related influences on personality, while Temperament is thought to reflect instinctive, biologically-based influences. In Study one, one-hundred and thirty-three participants (76.6% female) classify primary scales of the Eysenck Personality Profiler as relating to Character or Temperament. Impulsiveness, Anxie..