Relationships between behaviour, psychological properties of situations, and personality traits
Date
2014
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
The current study examines relationships between the three components of the personality
triad: behaviours, situations and personality traits. For that cause, the Riverside Situational QSort
(RSQ v 3.15; Wagerman & Funder, 2009) and the Riverside Behavioural Q-Sort (RBQ v
3.11; Funder, Colvin & Furr; 2000; Furr, Wagerman & Funder; 2010) were translated into
Estonian and applied to the Estonian student sample (n = 197) together with the Estonian
version of NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3; McCrae, Costa, & Martin, 2005) that
was used to measure personality traits. The results firstly indicated, that the RBQ is a
valuable measurement tool that is applicable in the Estonian context. Moreover, significant
relationships between behavioural evaluations, psychological properties of different situations
and the Big Five personality traits, were found. Also, situational properties more strongly
associated with behavioural evaluations than did the personality properties of the participants.