Hans Eysenck's Personality Theory

Vegeta, one of the main protagonists of the anime series Dragonball Z, showed conflicting attitudes, feeling of superiority, lust for power, pessimistic attitudes as well as internal struggle between being good and bad throughout the series. His ability to maintain his superior attitude when he lost his race and planet as well as events that lead him from being evil and self centered person to a caring and good person can be explained through many psychological viewpoints. Vegeta’s personality was mostly due to his upbringing and childhood. Vegeta was the prince of the fallen Saiyan race. The Saiyans were a race of strong people who lived in the Planet Vegeta and had the ability to increase their powers as well as transform into great apes.

Depending on the personality factors a person can be either classified as Introversion/ Extroversion and Neuroticism/ Stability. Vegeta was a prince who was alone almost all his life growing up because his planet was destroyed therefore his people were gone. Therefore, he developed skills and personality to whatever was suitable for him to stay alive alone. According to Eysenck’s factor analysis Vegeta would be an introverted person and neurotic. An introverted person is someone who is reserved and doesn’t like being too social with others. Vegeta grew up alone so he never learned how to be social with others. He just felt superior to everyone based on his strengths and killed who ever disagreed with him. A neurotic person is someone who is very anxious and moody. They have a hard time calming down once they are upset. Vegeta once his angry he won’t come down until whatever made him upset is destroyed. Eysenack related personality to the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). So, according to Eysenck, Vegeta would have an autonomic nervous system that responds quickly to stress. This means Vegeta quickly acts on his

The individual psychology theory basically explains that human are motivated to feel according to their social structures. According to Adler one of the single motivating forces that can subsume all other motives was if a person began their life with feelings of inferiority. Since Vegeta was prince of all the Saiyans he felt as if he was stronger than all the other saiyans. Vegeta was also pampered a lot by his dad King Vegeta when he was alive about how his family is royal and they are the strongest amongst the saiyans. Adler said, “Pampering robs the child of independence and adds to the feeling of inferiority.” So, having that sense Vegeta felt superior to rest of his