ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses stress and Eysenck, H. J. personality factors of Neuroticism and Introversion-Extraversion, it is suggested, predispose an individual to being affected by stress and anxiety under conditions that may be present in environments. Whether high levels of stimulation are stressful in their effects on individuals depends to an important extent on their personalities. Eysenck, H. J. has pointed out importance of introversion–extraversion in conjunction with neuroticism for formation of neurotic disorders and anxiety reactions under stressful conditions. Introversion–Extraversion gives direction to expression of emotion under stress. High neuroticism together with introversion predisposes the individual to produce relatively strong fear reactions that are easily conditioned, and trait anxiety, as measured by Manifest Anxiety Scale, is related to introversion and neuroticism. The circumstances in which the model of extraversion predicts that introverted individuals will become helpless after an uncontrollable training task require training and test tasks to be high on response organization but low on stimulus-analysis demands.
