Abstract

Personality traits of psychology sudents. Psicol inf. [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.14, pp.13-28. ISSN 1415-8809.

Abstract The personality of an individual can be defined as the underlying cause of behavior and individual experience. It is still related to temper, involving aspects like emotionality, sociability, reactivity, energy and interaction with the environment. This research aims to understand personality under the traits perspective, since this approach to a personality trait is the characteristic that distinguishes one person from another, and describes a basic dimension of personality. For this we used the instrument “Bateria Fatorial de Personalidade (BFP)” in 310 psychology students at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco and a socio-demographic questionnaire, correlating them. The “Bateria Fatorial de Personalidade (BFP)” is based on a five factor model, the “Modelo Fatorial dos Cinco Grandes Fatores (CGF)”, which includes the dimensions extroversion, socialization, achievement, neuroticism and openness to experience. The significant data related to gender showed higher scores on openness for men and on socialization for women. Other socio-demographic data, including marital status, type of shift to university, parents’ education and etc were determining factors in assessing the personality of the students.

Keywords : personality traits; socio-demographic; academic.

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