Childrens’ personality traits scale and peer acceptance

Authors

  • Fermino Fernandes Sisto
  • Sandra Maria S.S. Oliveira
  • Katya Luciane de Oliveira
  • Daniel Bartholomeu
  • José Carlos S. Oliveira
  • Otávia Regina Souza Costa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v8i1.3235

Keywords:

personality traits, validity evidence, sociometric test

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify whether personality traits and social acceptance are related. By means of the Escala de Traços de Personalidade para Crianças and Sociometric Test, 411 elementary public school students were studied. Among the results of correlation analysis and extreme group discrimination, three points of information were highlighted. The first point being that the neuroticism scores of girls were found to be lower than of boys, but its presence yielded to peer acceptance, whereas this reaction was not observed among the boys. The second point was that girls had higher scores for psychoticism and sociability than the boys, and this was related to the boys’ but not the girls’ peer rejection. The last point was that the correlations were low as expected, in spite of their significance; on this account, the peer acceptance-rejection factor must be take as just one of the personality components. In this context the data can be considered as valid evidence to Escala de Traços de Personalidade para Crianças.

Keywords: personality traits; validity evidence; sociometric test.

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Sisto, F. F., Oliveira, S. M. S., de Oliveira, K. L., Bartholomeu, D., Oliveira, J. C. S., & Costa, O. R. S. (2004). Childrens’ personality traits scale and peer acceptance. Interação Em Psicologia, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v8i1.3235

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2004)

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