Personality Continua

Extroversion – Introversion

This dimension linked to a person’s Reticular Activating System (RAS).

Related to how social or unsocial a person appeared to be.

Stable – Neurotic

This linked to a person’s autonomic nervous system.

Referred to the levels of nervousness and anxiety that a person was susceptible to.

It was claimed that extroverts were more likely to take part in sport and be more successful, that they prefer team games and that:

• Extroverts cope better in competitive and highly charged, stressful situations
• Extroverts cope better in the presence of distracting stimuli (e.g. audience, noise)
• Extroverts can cope with pain more easily then introverts