ABSTRACT
Hans Eysenck's neuroticism scales measure weakness of the nerves in the sense of emotional lability and over-reactivity. The opposite of neuroticism is emotional stability. The characteristics of neuroticism are generally seen as socially undesirable. The problem of locating social attitudes, and therefore religiosity, within Eysenck's personality model revolves around the idea of conditionability and socialization. In looking at links between Neuroticism and churchmanship, N. Francis and Kay found both male and female Pentecostal ministry candidates scored significantly lower neuroticism (N) scores than the general population, and thus found support for the view that 'glossolalia promotes positive aspects of psychological health'. In order to test whether the differing proportions of male and female curates within the churchmanship groups were influencing the results, a partial correlation coefficient was computed between each of the churchmanship dimensions and Neuroticism while holding sex as a constant. Evangelicals are the most stable and those of a Central churchmanship are the most neurotic.
