Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Paralinguistic Expression

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to test the associations among neuroticism, extraversion, and paralinguistic expression. The relevant literature provides ample information on the association between personality traits and voice intensity, pitch, pace of speaking, frequency of pauses, slips of the tongue, and other speech impediments. The author attempted to verify and supplement work reported previously. Scores for 100 persons (56 women, 44 men; M age =21.5 yr., SD= 1.5) were analyzed with respect to two aspects of personality, neuroticism and introversion-extraversion. To analyze the paralinguistic properties of speech, elicited oral messages were examined, i.e., a fairy tale told by the examinees. While the analysis did not give unambiguous evidence that the assumptions were correct, it indicated singular and statistically significant relations of introversion and neuroticism with speech fluency impediments.

Accuracy of Judging Affect and Accuracy of Judging Personality: How and When Are They Related?

“…Furthermore, Neuroticism is related to nonverbal qualities of appearance and behavior; Borkenau and Liebler (1995) found that more neurotic targets behaved less positively overall (e.g., less smiling) and behaved in an uncertain and nondominant manner (e.g., less self-assured expression, less eye contact, less powerful voice, and more speech dysfluencies). Other studies have found that Neuroticism is linked to behavioral signs of anxiety or nervousness (Back, Schmukle, & Egloff, 2009;Gawda, 2007;Hirschm€ uller, Egloff, Schmukle, Nestler, & Back, 2015).…”

Character and temperamental determinants of prosodic parameters of natural speech

“…(1974), have also convincingly demonstrated the existence of an individual rhythm of speech that does not depend on the verbal task. While trying to confirm the previous findings, Gawda B. (2007) found a correlation between extroversion and neuroticism, on the one hand, and fluency of speech on the other.…”

Paralinguistics in speech and language—State-of-the-art and the challenge

“…A more recent account of the state-of-the-art, especially on the automatic recognition of personality with the help of speech and linguistic information, and experimental results can be found in (Mairesse et al, 2007). To give some examples of other topics: Gawda (2007) tests the associations among neuroticism, extraversion, and paralinguistic expression. Hirschberg (2005, 2009) deal with acoustic/prosodic and lexical correlates of charismatic speech.…”