This paper reports relationships between two sets of personality dimensions, one of neuroticism and extraversion derived from the work of Eysenck, the other of obsessive, hysterical and oral personality, depending particularly on psychoanalytic formulations. The former were measured by the Maudsley Personality Inventory, the latter by a self‐report inventory and interview with relatives. Subjects were recovered depressed patients. Relations between the two sets of dimensions were examined by correlations and principal component analysis. Obsessive personalities were found to be primarily non‐neurotic; hysterical personalities were neurotic and extraverted; oral dependent personalities were neurotic and introverted. Attention is drawn to the need to distinguish obsessive personality from obsessional symptoms, and to an overlap in content between psychoanalytic formulations of the obsessive personality and concepts of stability or non‐neuroticism.
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Paykel et al. (1973) studied this question.