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Paweł Atroszko
Niepełnosprawność, Nr 27 (2017), 2017, s. 129-143
https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561.NP.17.043.8118Comparing pedagogy and special education students' personality characteristics
This article is an attempt to answer a question whether special education students differ from pedagogy students in terms of personality traits crucial from the point of view of future career. We assume that special education teachers are more exposed to stress in their professional work than other teachers. Therefore the profession of special education teacher requires specific individual resources to cope with stress. Because of that the special education students were expected to show personality traits associated with greater mental resilience. We assume that emotional stability, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience and greater sensitivity to the needs of others (high agreeableness and low cynical hostility) are personality traits associated with higher level of mental resilience. A logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the relationship between the field of study and the selected characteristics of personality. Total of 355 students participated in the study: 184 pedagogy students and 171 special education students. The traits of the Five-Factor Model of Personality were measured using the Polish version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) questionnaire. Cynical hostility was measured using the Polish version of the Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory – Brief (CMHI Brief) questionnaire. The results of the study showed no differences between education and special education students in terms of the selected personality traits crucial from the point of view of future career.
Paweł Atroszko
Psychologia Rozwojowa, Tom 20, Numer 2, 2015, s. 41-56
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843879PR.15.009.3481Occupational pathway in relation to human personality and spirituality
Presented research concerns developmental aspect of human personality and spirituality. We compared study participants taking into account age and profession: 170 doctors, 48 managers, 81 monks and 561 persons from general population (N = 860; women 471). Two questionnaires were used: NEO-FFI (Costa, McCrae, 1992) to measure personality, and Self-Description Questionnaire (Kwestionariusz Samoopisu of Heszen-Niejodek,Gruszczyńska, 2004) to assess the essence and level of spirituality.
The results show that personality and spirituality (mainly religious attitude) allow to predict occupational pathways. Moreover age and dimensions of Big-Five Model (without openness) are predictors of spirituality, with age and Agreeableness being its best predictors. The results provide premises which indicate that personality, and spirituality as one of its dimensions, is an important factor related to choice of individual occupational pathway in life.