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Resting Levels of Alpha and the Eysenck Personality Inventory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. Y. Kondo ,
J. A. Bean ,
T. A. Travis  and
J. R. Knott
C. Y. Kondo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
J. A. Bean
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
T. A. Travis
Affiliation:
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 3926, Department of Psychiatry, Springfield, Illinois 62708
J. R. Knott
Affiliation:
University of Iowa; Boxton University Medical School, Five Miles Drive, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169
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Abstract

The number of microvolt seconds of alpha rhythm emitted during a five-minute period were collected for 30 male and 30 female subjects. This measure of alpha abundance was then compared in subjects who scored high and in those who scored low on the E and N scales of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Subjects who scored low on the E scale tended to have a significantly greater number of microvolt seconds of alpha than did subjects who scored high on the scale. No differentiation on the basis of emitted alpha was possible for subjects scoring high and low on the N scale.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 4 , April 1978 , pp. 378 - 380
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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