Personality predictors of anger. The role of FFM traits, shyness, and self-esteem

• Authors: Waclaw Bak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present study was designed to verify hypothesized predictor effects for five anger-related variables, i.e. trait anger, anger expression-out, anger expression-in, anger control-out, and anger-control-in. A sample of 138 students completed measures for FFM personality traits (NEO-FFI), self-esteem (SES), shyness (RCBS), and anger (STAXI-2). The study confirmed the effects of neuroticism and agreeableness as being the chief personality predictors of anger; however, for the domain of anger expression-in, an unexpected role of extraversion was revealed. Furthermore, introducing self-esteem and shyness changed some effects of FFM traits. Entering self-esteem as an additional predictor improved the predictability of anger control-in. Additionally, a mediation effect of shyness was revealed for the relation between extraversion and anger expression-in.

Keywords

EN

anger; FFM traits; shyness; self-esteem

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 373-382

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-10-20

Contributors

author

Waclaw Bak

• The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2016-0044