A sample of 802 year eleven pupils completed the Junior Eysenck Person
ality Inventory together with Dommert's modification of the Rokeach Do
gmatism Scale. The data confirm the view that neuroticism is the dimen
sion of personality fundamental to individual differences in dogmatism
, while extraversion is irrelevant to dogmatism. (C) 1998 Elsevier Sci
ence Ltd. All rights reserved.