Personality and Attitudinal Correlates of Ability
to Increase Alpha Production in EEG Biofeedback Training
K. Zirkel, R.A.C. Stewart & C. Preston |
This study focusses on
the question "are there personality and attitudinal differences
which make individuals more likely to increase alpha production in
EEG biofeedback training?" Subjects were undergraduate students
(N=12) at Memorial University. The standardized inventories used were
a) Eysenck Personality Inventory. y (EPI) Form B; b) Wilson-Patterson
Conservatism Scale; c) Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values; and
d) Wrightsman Philosophies of Human Nature Scale. EEG signals recorded
on a Beckman R511 polygraph. Electrodes recorded brain-wave activity
from a right occipital-temporal location. The training effect on the
first biofeedback segment (as compared to the base-line) correlated
significantly (.68 p<.05) with the lie scale of the EPI. As well
the training effect on the second biofeedback segment correlated (
- .82 p < .05) with the Theoretical Value score from the AVL Study
of Values. In addition females were to be shown significantly higher
on the number of seconds per minute for which the S was "in alpha".
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