Study of Personality Traits In Constitutional Types

  • Lee Sang Kwan (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University, Department of Psychology, College of Social Science, Chonnam University) ;
  • Jeong Eui Suk (Department of Psychology, College of Social Science, Chonnam University) ;
  • Sung Kang Keyng (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University)
  • Published : 2004.12.01

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality traits in constitutional types. The Questionnaire for the Sasang Constitution Classification Ⅱ and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were completed by 155 university students. Statistical analyses of the Questionnaire for the Sasang Constitution Classification Ⅱ and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire scale scores and results are as follows : First, Personality differences in constitutional types are revealed significantly with respect to Eysenck Personality Questionnaire scales such as neuroticism, addiction, and criminality. Second, there is a significant difference between Eum(음) type and Yang(양) type along psychoticism and neuroticism. Third, sex difference is significant along the dimension of extraverion-intraversion.

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