predicting self-awareness dimensions from personality traits among gifted students

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Madineh Rafat Panah ¹ , Diba Seif ²

1 - MA in Psychology and Exceptional Children
2 - PhD Shiraz University

Received: 2015-05-31 Accepted : 2015-05-31 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: Personality traits, self-awareness, gifted students,

Abstract :

the purpose of the present study was to predict the dimensions of self-awareness from personality traits in gifted students. Two hundred and thirty nine gifted students (120 girls, 119 boys) were selected from two high schools using purposive sampling. The participants completed the Big Five Personality Questionnaire (BFPQ; Goldberg, 1999)and the Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS; Realo & Allik, 1998).The results indicated significant correlations between personality traits (openness to experience, conscientious, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism) and dimensions of self-awareness (private self-awareness, public selfawareness, and social anxiety). The multiple regression analysis indicated that openness to experience and conscientiousness predicted private self-awareness, and agreeableness and neuroticism predicted public self-awareness positively. Also, neuroticism predicted social anxiety positively, and extraversion predicted social anxiety negatively.