| 释义 |
neuroticism|njʊˈrɒtɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. neurotic a. + -ism.]
The condition or state of being neurotic; a tendency towards neurosis; esp. as a factor showing liability to neurosis included in certain types of personality assessment.
1900Daily Chron. 5 June 4/5 The holiday season has been darkened by the reports of suicides which suggest..the neuroticism of Paris. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. i. 25, I think that I may let the matter of religion and neuroticism drop. 1922Glasgow Herald 5 Oct. 5 The brilliant neuroticism of recent novels. 1952H. J. Eysenck Sci. Study of Personality ii. 58 We have extracted a general factor of ‘neuroticism’ from the intercorrelations of fifteen tests for normal and neurotic groups separately. 1957P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. iii. 34 Neuroticism and psychoticism are defined with scrupulous statistical care in terms of factorial scores..: but neither is directly related to ordinary behaviour. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 31 July 445/1 Mr. Johnston is subtle and satisfying when he shows them needling one another into neuroticism. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXII. 197 Iranian female subjects had scored higher than their male counterparts on neuroticism but lower on both extraversion and psychoticism. |