Ashton Michael C, Lee Kibeom, Paunonen Sampo V
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002 Jul;83(1):245-52.
R. E. Lucas, E. Diener, A. Grob, E. M. Suh, and L. Shao (2000) recently argued that the core of the personality dimension of Extraversion is not sociability but a construct called reward sensitivity. This article accepts their argument that the mere preference for social interaction is not the central element of Extraversion. However, it claims that the real core of the Extraversion factor is the tendency to behave in ways that attract social attention. Data from a sample of 200 respondents were used to test the 2 hypotheses with comparisons of measures of reward sensitivity and social attention in terms of their saturation with the common variance of Extraversion measures. The results clearly showed that social attention, not reward sensitivity, represents the central feature of Extraversion.
R. E. 卢卡斯、E. 迪纳、A. 格罗布、E. M. 苏和L. 邵（2000年）最近提出，外向性人格维度的核心并非社交性，而是一种名为奖励敏感性的构念。本文认同他们的观点，即仅仅对社交互动的偏好并非外向性的核心要素。然而，本文认为外向性因素的真正核心是表现出吸引社会关注行为的倾向。来自200名受访者样本的数据被用于检验这两个假设，通过比较奖励敏感性和社会关注的测量指标在外向性测量指标共同方差饱和度方面的差异。结果清楚地表明，代表外向性核心特征的是社会关注，而非奖励敏感性。
