The Investigation of Elementary School Children''''s Personality Trait

• Main Authors: Wen-Ti Lee, 李雯娣
• Other Authors: 莊耀嘉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15866497252257164843

碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 88 === The Investigation of Elementary School Children’s Personality TraitWen-Ti LeeAbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate both the factorial structure of children’s personality and the relationships between personality and adjustment. 1,799 Taiwanese schoolchildren ages 11 to 13 rated their own personalities using the 148 Chinese trait adjectives, which drew mainly from a Chinese children dictionary. 309 of them were also rated for their personalities by their teachers using the same adjectives. Exploratory factor analysis of teachers'''' ratings revealed the Big-Five factors of personality: agreeableness, conscientiousness, intellect/openness, and extroversion/surgency. The factor-analytic results for students’ self-ratings revealed six factors: agreeableness, neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness/intellect-openness, narcissistic tendency, and aggressiveness. The relationships between the major factors of personality (e.g., conscientiousness) and four aspects of adjustment (learning behavior and achievement, prosocial behavior, delinquent behavior, and self-perception of competence) were also explored. The correlational pattern provided support for the argument that the Big-Five factors of personality emerged cross-culturally because they played a key role in affecting an individual adjustment in any society.Keywords: elementary school children, childhood personality, personality trait, big-five model, trait theory,adjustment.