Original Article

Year : 2020 | Volume : 5 | Issue : 2 | Page : 17 - 20

Personality Style and its Relation with Level of Anxiety

Tanushree Chatterjee, Priyanka Kacker1Counsellor, Podar International School Katol Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 1

Senior Assistant Professor, School of Forensic Psychology, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Address for correspondence:

Ms. Tanushree Chatterjee,

P-43C, Meherbaba Apartment, Meherbaba Colony, Wardha Road, Nagpur, India.

E-mail: tanushreechatterji03@gmail.com

Abstract

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his/her unique adjustments to the environment” (Allport, 1937). It includes behavioral characteristics, both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can be observed in people’s relations to the environment and to the social group. The American Psychological Association defines anxiety as “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes such as increased blood pressure.”Introverts and extroverts experience the world – and experience anxiety – in markedly different ways. Some studies show that introverts are more vulnerable to anxiety and hence at a greater risk of clinical depression. This study aims to find a relation between personality type and anxiety level of an individual. The study was conducted on 100 individuals (50 males and 50 females, ranging from the age group of 20–30 years) in which Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire-Revised was used to identify the personality type and Beck Anxiety Inventory, and a self-analysis questionnaire was used to measure the anxiety level of the individual. A comparison between both the test results revealed that individuals who are found to be extroverts indicate mild anxiety on the anxiety scale whereas individuals who are found to be introverts indicate high levels of anxiety on the anxiety scale. The accuracy of this research can however be determined through more detailed research.

Keywords: Anxiety, Beck Anxiety Inventory, extroverts, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised, introverts, personality

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How to cite this article: Chatterjee T, Kacker P. Personality style and its relation with the level of anxiety. Int J Soc Rehab 2020;5:17-20.