Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between the trait-scores of personality test (MPI) and the efficiency of self-referent information processing on those traits. The results indicated that; (a) extraverted words led to more effective self-descriptive judgments than introverted ones in highly extraverted subjects; (b) subjects with low extraversion scalescores made self-descriptive judgments to intraverted words more easily than to extraverted ones; (c) there was no difference in neurotic and non-neurotic subjects with regard to their processing efficiency of words relative to neuroticism and non-neuroticism; (d) judgments describing others took longer and were rated more difficult when prompted by introverted words than by extraverted ones. The findings suggested that personality traits associated with observable behaviors are more easily inferred and lead to self-schema formations than traits relating to internal affective cues.
