Religiosity and personality: are mystics introverted, neurotic, or psychotic?
One hundred and fifteen subjects completed Hood's M scale, a measure of reported mystical experience, and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, which measures introversion/extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and a lie score. No significant correlations were found between mysticism and the scales of the EPQ, nor could mysticism be predicted by multiple regression, either by the EPQ scales with sex and age, or by the EPQ scales controlling for sex and age.
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Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009228:Mysticism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology