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. 2021 May 3:14:511-527.
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S299720. eCollection 2021.

Do Values Relate to Personality Traits and if so, in What Way? - Analysis of Relationships

Mirosława Czerniawska  1 , Joanna Szydło  1
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Do Values Relate to Personality Traits and if so, in What Way? - Analysis of Relationships

Mirosława Czerniawska et al. Psychol Res Behav Manag. .

Abstract

Introduction: The research presents empirical data concerning the relations between personal traits and value system. The study focuses on empathy, agreeableness, directiveness, Machiavellism as personality traits. Theoretical assumptions and empirical findings are analyzed and interpreted in the context of cognitive framework, including the idea of regulative function self-concept. A content compatibility hypothesis between personality traits and one's system of value was accepted as preliminary assumption for this research: empathy and agreeableness positively correlate with allocentric values, whereas directiveness and Machiavellism positively correlate with idiocentric values. The study group consisted of 325 students.

Methods: The Empathic Understanding of Others Questionnaire (Węgliński), Personality Inventory NEO-FFI (Costa and McCrae) Directiveness Scale (Ray) and Mach V Scale (Christie and Geis) were used.

Results: The value system of empathic and agreeable people reveals an allocentric orientation (tendency to abandon one's own perspective), while the value system of directive and Machiavellian people reveals an idiocentric orientation (focused on oneself).

Discussion: The data analysis revealed that subjects tend to organize their self-knowledge in such a way that there is a content consistency between the information included in the appropriate schemas of personality traits and value preference.

Keywords: Machiavellism; agreeableness; directiveness; empathy; personality traits; self-concept; value.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this work.

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