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Personality dimensions of people who suffer from visual stress

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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:39 authored by Jarrod Hollis, Peter M. Allen, David Fleischmann, Rubina Aulak
Personality dimensions of participants who suffer from visual stress were compared with those of normal participants using the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Extraversion-Introversion scores showed no significant differences between the participants who suffered visual stress and those who were classified as normal. By contrast, significant differences were found between the normal participants and those with visual stress in respect of Neuroticism-Stability. These differences accord with Eysenck's personality theory which states that those who score highly on the neuroticism scale do so because they have a neurological system with a low threshold such that their neurological system is easily activated by external stimuli. The findings also relate directly to the theory of visual stress proposed by Wilkins which postulates that visual stress results from an excess of neural activity. The data may indicate that the excess activity is likely to be localised at particular neurological regions or neural processes.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

27

Issue number

6

Page range

603-610

Publication title

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

ISSN

1475-1313

Publisher

Wiley

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2012-12-17

Legacy creation date

2018-11-01

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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