Psychological type and the three major dimensions of personality: mapping the relationship between the FPTS and the EPQR-A among clergy and churchgoers

Abstract

ABSTRACT The present study was designed to situate the eight scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales within the three dimensional psychological space defined by the abbreviated Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQR-A), drawing on data provided by 2,769 clergy and churchgoing participants. The data support the concurrent validity of the Extraversion and Introversion Scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales against the Eysenck Extraversion Scale. The data also illustrates how all the scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales may be nuanced by correlations with the Eysenckian dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism and with the Eysenckian Lie Scale.