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‖ rhathymia, n. Psychol.|rəˈθaɪmɪə|
[ad. Gr. ῥᾳθῡµία light-heartedness, easiness of temper, f. ῥᾳθῡµειν to take a holiday, be idle.]
In the factorial analysis of personality: a factor which predisposes a person towards light-heartedness and freedom from worry; hence, the state or condition of being cheerful and carefree; optimism.
1936J. P. & R. B. Guilford in Jrnl. Psychol. II. 122 A new factor analysis will soon be made in the hope of describing factor IV more explicitly. We have tentatively identified this variable as factor R, the letter R standing for a word coined from the Greek ‘rhathymia’ which means freedom from care. 1948Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. June 188 The probable connexion of the liability to joy emotions..with certain ‘types’ or ‘factors’—‘extraversia’, ‘rhathymia’, ‘surgency’. 1959J. P. Guilford Personality xvi. 413 Eysenck..has proposed the hypothesis that restraint vs. rhathymia is equivalent to introversion–extraversion. 1969Brit. Jrnl. Social & Clinical Psychol. VIII. 275 Rhathymia in otherwise introversive individuals facilitates the already existing tendency towards use of isolation relative to repression while restraint inhibits it. 1972Encycl. Psychol. III. 155/1 Rhathymia manifests itself in an unconcerned, carefree, merry attitude. 1981Personality & Individual Differences II. 94 Most of the normal Egyptian groups had higher mean scores than British samples on Rhathymia. |