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1 Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
Some 800 unmarried male and female students were administered a personality inventory measuring psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism, as well as a 98 item questionnaire of sexual attitudes. Factor analysis showed that some 15 factors were sufficient to account for the attitudes sampled; most of these were similar for the two sexes. High- and low-scorers on the three personality variables were compared for their responses to the attitude items, and numerous highly significant differences were found; similarly, male and female students' responses were compared. Personality scores were found to be correlated with some of the sex attitude factors. In general, high N scorers showed the greatest degree of pathology, followed by high P scorers; extraverts showed an absence of pathology. P scorers showed strong libidinal desires. These and many other findings are considered in the context of the writer's personality theory which had provided certain tentative predictions about the sexual attitudes and behaviour of different personality types.
Submitted on June 3, 1970
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