10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISCEROTONIA»
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viscerotonia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and ...
To establish a link between body type and personality, Sheldon developed a
personality test identifying three major dimensions of temperament: viscerotonia,
somatotonia, and cerebrotonia. • Viscerotonia consists of a cluster of traits
relating ...
Bernardo J. Carducci, 2009
2
The Body in Psychotherapy
This scale can be used for rating a person on viscerotonia, soma- totonia, and
cerebrotonia. Considerable research by Sheldon and his colleagues has shown
a strong relationship between the primary components of physique (structure)
and ...
Viscerotonia. Viscerotonia is the name given to the active temperament
associated with the endomor- phic physique. The extreme viscerotonic is
motivated by a superior ability to ingest nourishment and by an inherent gift for
social adhesion.
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From Manual Evaluation to General Diagnosis: Assessing ...
They correspond in large part to Kretschmer's pyknic, athletic, and leptosomatic
types. The psychological correspondences are respectively: I viscerotonia I
somatotonia I cerebrotonia viscerotonia Viscerotonia characterizes beings in
which the ...
5
Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation
Sheldon also classified individuals on the basis of their temperament (i.e.,
personality): somatotonia, cerebrotonia, and viscerotonia. While the concept of
body types generally is accepted, its linkage with personality dispositions is
discounted.
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Research In Psychology: Methods and Design
He labeled the categories ''viscerotonia,'' ''somatotonia,'' and ''cerebrotonia.''
Generally, viscerotonics were sociable, fun-loving, slow-moving, even-tempered,
and very interested in food. Somatotonics were aggressive, self-centered, and ...
Viscerotonia, Somatotonia and Cerebrotonia The first cluster, or component, is
named viscerotonia, after the digestive viscera. The traits in the cluster include
those with reference to relaxation and love of comfort, food, people, and affection.
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Constitutional Psychophysiology: Research in Review
Viscerotonia: general relaxation, love of comfort, sociability, conviviality, gluttony
for food, for people, and for affection 2. Somatotom'a: action and power define
life's primary purpose 3. Cerebrotonia: roughly a predominance of the element of
...
9
Temperament: A Psychological Perspective
Borrowing the suffix— tonia from Eppinger and Hess (1910), who studies on
vagotonia, the authors labeled the three primary temperamen nents viscerotonia,
somatotonia, and cerebrotonia. The names illustrate tional dominance of given ...
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The Structure of Human Personality (Psychology Revivals)
These clusters were labelled “viscerotonia”, “somatotonia”, and “cerebrotonia”
respectively, as they seemed to deal respectively with the functional
predominance of the digestive viscera, the functional and anatomical
predominance of the ...
