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In Eysenck's personality dimensions, an individual who is anxious, moody and easily upset under pressure would be classed as scoring high on which dimension?

The individual scores high on neuroticism. In Eysenck's model this dimension measures emotional instability, with high scorers being anxious, moody and easily upset under pressure. Extraversion concerns sociability and psychoticism concerns aggression and lack of empathy, so they do not match the behaviour described.

  1. ANeuroticismCorrect
  2. BExtraversion
  3. CPsychoticism

Explanation

Eysenck's neuroticism dimension reflects emotional instability, anxiety and moodiness, in contrast to emotional stability. Extraversion measures sociability versus introversion, and psychoticism relates to aggression, coldness and non-conformity, so neither fits the description.

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