A Study on Big Five Personality from Junior-High-School Students

• Main Authors: LIU, HUI-PING, 劉惠萍
• Other Authors: 王碧朗
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77842349940859035273

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 101 === A Study on Big Five Personality from Junior-High-School Students Student: Hui-ping Liu Advisor: Dr. Pi-lang Wang Master’s Program Department of Applied Psychology Hsuan Chuang University Abstract This study examined junior-high-school students’ Big Five personality traits. The 44-item Big Five Inventory was administered to obtain personality self-reports from 177 male students (52.5%) and 160 female students (47.5%) in grades 8 and 9. All students were between the age of 13.6 and 15.9 (M=14.7 years). The Big Five self-report data showed that the characteristics that most strongly apply to them is Agreeableness, followed by Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness,and Neuroticism. There were significant gender differences: the extent of Extraversion male students showed higher extent of Evtraversion than female students; the extent of Neuroticism female students showed higher extent of Neuroticism than male students. The correlations between Extraversion and Agreeableness, Extraversion and Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Openness, Conscientiousness and Openness, revealed that there was no better differentiation across domains Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. These findings have important implications for school educations and curricula to strengthen the self-knowledge in personality for junior-high-school students when they began to explore and establish their own identities. Key words: Big Five personality traits, adolescents’ personality traits