Abstract
The transformational pace of modern education, healthcare, business management systems, etc., requires new approaches for prompt and reliable personality assessment. Phenotypology is one of such theories and it claims of the discovered interconnections of a person’s psychological and psychophysical characteristics on the basis of individual features of his/her phenotype. The article aim is to present some validation results for the Phenotypology hypotheses as a possible tool for personality assessment. In order to verify connections between phenotypic treats and individual behavior, we conducted the study when respondents were differentiated according to some anthropometric (facial) peculiarities and characterological features. The results were quantified and analyzed using the mathematical-statistical linear regression. The research output contains the rationale for the conclusion that there are no statistically significant correlations between some phenotypic body features and such individual psychological characteristics as aggressiveness, impetuosity, pedantry, passivity, etc. In particular, the validity of using of appropriate phenotypologic representations to predict the examined character traits was studied. The obtained results disproved the possibility to use directly the phenotypic approach for reliable characterological profiling. Though, the study outcome is tentative due to some limitations on generality. It is necessary to continue verification of the Phenotypology hypotheses with a broader experimental sample with the inclusion of various ethnic and racial groups’ representatives. However, until then, based on actual findings, the practical application of the Phenotypology statements is doubtful, at least for the purposes of character diagnosis and personality assessment.
Highlights
There is the lack of modern scientific data and theoretical models that would claim a personality assessment and behavior prediction based on the phenotype
“Phenotypology is a science about the interconnection of psychological and psychophysical characteristics in person’s behavior genetics on the basis of individual features of his phenotype
R2 = 0,030, which means that approximately 3% of the variance in dependent variable (DV) is explained by independent variables (IVs)
Summary
USING PHENOTYPOLOGY HYPOTHESES AS A PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT TOOL: THE TENTATIVE VALIDATION STUDY. Most diagnostic criteria are associated with different characteristics of facial features (eyes, nose, lips, ears, chin, etc.) and neck length. Reich’s model was adapted by us for the diagnostic identification of pure and mixed types of character through the standardized observation of bodily, mimic, paralinguistic, and certain speech characteristics (Shymko, 2017) Using this adaptation, experts had carried out diagnostics of each respondent and summarized diagnostic opinion on the degree of a particular characterological trait on the following scale: 1) there are no signs; 2) signs are mild; 3) signs are pronounced (acute). To assess the ears protrudiness, we used the otoplastic method of rapid diagnosis of lop-earedness (Plastic surgery, 2010) This technique, as well as the evaluation of the neck length, involved a comparison of different bodily features of one person.
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