The relationship between Horney’s three neurotic types and Eysenck’s PEN model of personality

The Horney–Coolidge Type Inventory (HCTI) was developed by Coolidge, Moor, Yamazaki, Stewart, and Segal (2001) to objectively measure the three neurotic personality types postulated by Karen Horney. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Horney’s three neurotic types and Eysenck’s PEN model of personality. The HCTI and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) were completed by 130 university students (92 women and 38 men). It was hypothesized that the HCTI and EPQ-R scales would correlate in predictable ways, and this hypothesis was partially supported. A principal components analysis of the HCTI and EPQ-R scale scores indicated that the Aggressive and Detached scales loaded onto the same factor as Psychoticism, while the Compliant scale and Neuroticism loaded onto the same factor. The results indicated that the HCTI might be a measure of interpersonal aspects of Eysenck’s Psychoticism and Neuroticism factors.