Cotiga, Teodora (2023) "Not extroverted, but not introverted as well" - A qualitative analysis of personality traits in the construction of identity among emerging adults. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The aim of this thesis was to qualitatively analyze how emerging adults are constructing their identities through the use of the Big Five personality traits, namely extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, and introversion, in verbal self-descriptions. Identity construction is the process of integrating multiple parts of one’s self into a single coherent unit. In order to express and understand their identities, individuals identify themselves with different categories, which can be represented by personality traits. 115 first year psychology students were placed alone in experimental rooms and recorded while asked to describe themselves for three minutes. Transcripts of the recordings were subject to Iterative Micro-Content Analysis, which identified the participants that used personality traits in their self descriptions, the prevalence of each personality trait in the transcripts, and found three patterns across the transcripts: extroversion and introversion as identification and attributes, extroversion and introversion as dimensions, and elaboration on openness to experience. The results illustrated how the personality traits were actively reflected and elaborated on, in order to be integrated in the participants’ identities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gmelin, J.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2023 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2023 09:15 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1852 |
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