The personality characteristics of Anglican stipendiary parochial clergy: Gender differences revisited

The short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 373 male and 560 female Anglican stipendiary parochial clergy. Contrary to the usual sex differences in the personality profiles of men and women found in general population samples, the female clergy were not significantly different from the male clergy in terms of their scores recorded on the extraversion scale, the neuroticism scale, the psychoticism scale, or the lie scale. The implications of these findings are discussed for the development of the ministry of men and women in the church.