triguna and Eysenck Personality Dimensions

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Swaroop R. (Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysuru )
Kiran Kumar K. Salagame (Department of Psychology (Retired), University of Mysore, Mysuru )
Archana Bhat Kallahalla (Department of Mathematics and Humanities, India Platform, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru )

The efforts to understand self in the context of society and the society in the context of self has been a perennial activity of the human kind for centuries. In this effort, the role of India has been considerably the most strenuous. Irrespective of how precisely ancient Indians have achieved a tangible result in the aforementioned activity, the efforts are commendable. The vastness of documents in regards to understanding the intrinsic relationship between the self and society and vice-versa is impeccable. Those documents deemed as scriptures are articulated in a way, that, it becomes relevant for people of all ages. However, the conclusions arrived at in those scriptures require a more systematic empirical investigation in the context of contemporary social sciences. Those scriptures are apparently religious to some and inherently spiritual to others. In spite of what and how people perceive and feel the scriptures, scriptures have struck a chord with the majority of the Indian population. Owing to the solidarity the major population has shown in accepting the scriptures, it becomes intriguing and worth an examination. An examination that yearns to verify the basis of such solidarity is it backed up by thorough logic or is it driven by blind beliefs? To investigate one such conceptual framework from an empirical perspective, the AHS scale as developed by authors was further correlated with the the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. If both the scales have their own ways of measuring an individual, the dimensions of Eysenck and the personality aspects of triguna theory apparently hold some conceptual resemblance. Considering the fact that earlier researchers had taken up a similar research and also had coincidentally found results very similar to this result, this work becomes even more intriguing to see, how across three decades the two concepts have stood as pillars to two different cultures of psychology. The tool is checked for its validity on a sample size of 200, who were administered the AHS scale along with the EPQ. The obtained results are discussed below.