Taxonomia brasileira da personalidade: um estudo dos adjetivos da língua portuguesa. / Brazilian taxonomy of personality: a study of portuguese adjectives.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The present study is based on a German model of taxonomy of personality descriptors and it is part of a transcultural study about the subject. It refers to adjectives personality descriptors of the Portuguese language, based on the lexicon. The goals of the research are: a) build the Brazilian personality taxonomy, b) classify the personality descriptors in: Tendencies, Social rules, relations and effects, Temporary moods or activities, Appearance and physical characteristics, Terms are not personality relevant (and another categories that were indicated from judges), c) Describe the preponderancy of one category to another, d) Compare data from Brazilian taxonomy with others taxonomies. Ten psychologists participated, with different theorical approaches. The judges received the material personally or by email. The results indicated that 236 adjectives (25,15%) were selected for seven judges or more. From 938 adjectives, 89 (9,5%) were classified in Tendencies, 57 (6,1%) in Social rules, relations and effects, 78 (8,3%) in Temporary moods or activities, 11 (1,2%) in Appearance and physical characteristics and 1 (0,1%) in Terms are not personality relevant. Considering that the organization of the personality descriptors gives origin to a scientific database that will be functional for the improvement of techniques and instruments for the psychological assessment and tool for studies of personality it is suggested continuity of this work, and the development of research source from this.

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psicologia personality taxonomy personality descriptors psychological assessment avaliação psicológica taxonomia descritores da personalidade personalidade

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