Personality traits of a group of young adults from different family structures. |
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| Authors: | J Du Toit E M Nel H R Steel |
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| Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. |
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| Abstract: | The impact of parental divorce and remarriage and young adults' gender on second-order personality traits, such as extraversion, anxiety, tough poise and independence, was examined. The responses of 227 young adults on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF; Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970) were subjected to a parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Results revealed significant differences between the anxiety scores of the young men and women as well as between those of the three different family-structure groups, but divorce and remarriage was not associated with either positive or negative personality development in this sample. |
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