The Relationship of Personality, Emotional Intelligence, and Aggressiveness in Students: A Study Using the Big Five Personality Questionnaire for Children and Adults (BFQ-NA).

Jose Luis Antoñanzas

doi:10.3390/ejihpe11010001

Abstract

An analysis of secondary students’ personality traits, along with a description of their emotional intelligence levels and their anger control, could be decisive when educating students to prevent anti-social behavior in academia. Very few studies on personality, emotional intelligence, and aggressive conduct exist in Spain. Some of the studies that do exist, however, only explore the relationship between emotional intelligence, personality, and prosocial behavior in secondary education students. Likewise, there are few studies focusing on personality and aggression control. In this study, using the Big Five personality models as predictors of aggressiveness in subjects and of emotional intelligence, we sought to contribute to the improvement of the education of students on aggressive behavior in education centers. To do this, we conducted a study using the Big Five Personality Questionnaire (BFQ) for Children and Adults (BFQ-NA), the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) emotional intelligence test, and the State–Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) anger management test. Our main objective was to analyze the relationship of the BFQ with the variables of emotional intelligence and aggressiveness. This was achieved using a range of bivariate correlation and multiple regression tests. The results showed the correlation and predictive value of emotional intelligence and aggression in the Big Five model of personality. This study coincides with other research linking Big Five questionnaires with emotional intelligence and aggression.

Highlights

In the 1980s, the so-called Big Five model introduced the notion, in an empirical manner, that all personality traits could be explained by five dimensions and/or factors.It did this by grouping the behavior and conduct of subjects using a lexical approach, and allowed the prediction of psychopathology, juvenile delinquency, school and work performance, normality, risk factors linked to physical health and longevity, etc. [1,2,3].One such example is the personality model of McCrae and Costa [3]
The results confirmed a certain correlation between the variables of personality (BFQNA), of emotional intelligence (TMSS-24), and of anger or aggression control (STAXI)
We found that the clarity and understanding feelings dimensions correlated positively with both these variables in the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ)-NA

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Introduction

In the 1980s, the so-called Big Five model introduced the notion, in an empirical manner, that all personality traits could be explained by five dimensions and/or factors.It did this by grouping the behavior and conduct of subjects using a lexical approach, and allowed the prediction of psychopathology, juvenile delinquency, school and work performance, normality, risk factors linked to physical health and longevity, etc. [1,2,3].One such example is the personality model of McCrae and Costa [3]. In the 1980s, the so-called Big Five model introduced the notion, in an empirical manner, that all personality traits could be explained by five dimensions and/or factors. It did this by grouping the behavior and conduct of subjects using a lexical approach, and allowed the prediction of psychopathology, juvenile delinquency, school and work performance, normality, risk factors linked to physical health and longevity, etc. As pointed out by Pedrero [5], the BFQ comes across as being more parsimonious than its predecessors, better matches the main five-factor theoretical principles, and measures a subject’s tendency to distort data and to offer a “distorted”

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