Personality and performance on a frustrating cognitive task.
Eysenck's biological model of personality suggests that extravertive persons will not persevere when solving boring, frustrating problems. This hypothesis was tested using a difficult jigsaw task. Quitting behaviour was strongly associated with scores on Extraversion.
Cooper
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C
School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, UK. c.cooper@qub.ac.uk
Taylor
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R
D003071:Cognition; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011340:Problem Solving; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis