Relacoes Entre Afetos Positivos e Negativos com os Cinco Fatores da Personalidade em uma Amostra Brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Zanon, Cristian
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Bastianello, Micheline Roat, Pacico, Juliana Cerentini, Hutz, Claudio Simon
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/paideia/article/view/75842

Strong associations of Neuroticism and Extraversion with positive affects (PA) and negative affects (NA) have been reported in the international literature. This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of such relationships in a Brazilian sample, and also to investigate the role of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Openness in the prediction of PA and NA through the use of a hybrid structural model. Participants were 319 university students, between 17 and 37 years of age (mean = 21.5, SD = 4.9). Approximately 64% of the students were female and 36% male. Results showed that Neuroticism was the most important predictor of PA and NA, followed by Conscientiousness, but not Extraversion. Surprisingly, Agreeableness was shown to be a weak prediction for NA, but had no relationship with PA. As expected, Openness showed no relationship with PA or NA. These results are partially in agreement with the international literature but some important differences were detected.