The personality characteristics of Anglican ordinands: Feminine men and masculine women?

Abstract

The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 155 male and 97 female Anglican ordinands. The emerging personality profiles are not consistent with predictions advanced against what is generally known about the relationship between the Eysenckian personality constructs and religiosity. The mean extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism scores recorded by the female ordinands are closer to the male than the female population norms, while the mean extraversion scores recorded by the male ordinands are closer to the female than the male population norms. The implications of these findings are discussed for parish ministry.