Eysenck's Personality Theory Evaluation Points

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Personality STRENGTH - Rushton and Chrisjohn (1981)
Showed a link between high scores of delinquency and extroversion/psychoticism, but not neuroticism.
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Personality STRENGTH - Eysenck et al (1977)
Used 158 prisoners (ages 18-38), and categorised them based on their crimes, but found that extroversion may have a little link to criminality, but ASB and aggression do not link to psychoticism and neuroticism at all (more of a weakness really)
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Personality STRENGTH of credibility
Some studies suggest personality = contributing rather than causal. Social + Biological factors taken into account, suggesting theory is well-rounded.
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Personality WEAKNESS - Farrington et al (1982)
Reported that extroversion scores are less associated with criminal behaviour than the other two scores.
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Personality WEAKNESS of reductionism.
Explanation is simplistic, failing to take into account other peoples reactions to other settings, as well as other biological factors like the brain
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Personality WEAKNESS of crediblity
Personality data is often collected via questionnaires, which can be open to social desirability bias- prisoners may act more psychotic to be feared more and left alone. Thus, info the theory is based on is not credible.
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Used 158 prisoners (ages 18-38), and categorised them based on their crimes, but found that extroversion may have a little link to criminality, but ASB and aggression do not link to psychoticism and neuroticism at all (more of a weakness really)

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Personality STRENGTH - Eysenck et al (1977)

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Some studies suggest personality = contributing rather than causal. Social + Biological factors taken into account, suggesting theory is well-rounded.

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Reported that extroversion scores are less associated with criminal behaviour than the other two scores.

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Explanation is simplistic, failing to take into account other peoples reactions to other settings, as well as other biological factors like the brain

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