Extraversion, sensation seeking, stimulus screening and Type ‘A’ behaviour pattern: The relationship between various measures of arousal

Abstract

Although the concept of arousal has led to the development of various psychological constructs, and instruments for measuring them, few attempts have been made to investigate the relationship between more than two of these measures in a moderately large heterogeneous population. This study set out to compare measures of extraversion, sensation seeking, stimulus screening and the Type A behaviour pattern. Subscale, as well as total scale, scores were intercorrelated. The results showed that all the measures correlated significantly positively but that the highest correlations were between the subscale scores on the various tests. The implications for individual-difference measurement are considered.