[Study on relationship between personality traits and social life abilities in children]

Abstract

Author surveyed 330 pupils and their parents by using Eysenck Pensonality Questionnaire (E. P. Q) and Infants-Junior Middle School Students' Social-Life Abilities Scale, to explore the relationship between personality and Social-life abilities in children. Result show there was no relationship between social-Life abilities and degrees of psychoticism, neuroticism and lie in children. It was closely related between social-life abilities and personality of children. The children with low social-life abilities are mostly introverted. The children with high social-life abilities, especially in communication, are mostly extroverted. Children over 10 year-old with high locomotion are mostly extroverted (P < 0.05). As results of the study, parents and pediatric nurses should assist the personality of children to be developed toward extroversion tendencies.