Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 38 No. 3 , Pages 382 - 391 , 2006

Self-supporting Personality of Adolescent Students (Article written in Chinese)

XIA Lingxiang & HUANG Xiting

Abstract

Four self-rating scales of personality trait adjectives were developed by 5 steps. College students questionnaire, senior high school students questionnaire, junior high school students questionnaire, and adolescent students questionnaire were administered on college students, senior high school students, and junior high school students. The results of exploring factor analysis show that: (1) Initiative, opening, interpersonal responsibility, active, and independence were the 5 dimensions that were gotten by the survey results of college students questionnaire. (2) interpersonal openness and responsibility, flexibility and independence, initiative, and behavior responsibility were the 4 dimensions that were gotten by the survey results of senior high school students questionnaire, (3) Initiative and behavior responsibility, openness, interpersonal responsibility, active, flexibility and independence were the 5 dimensions that were gotten by the survey results of junior high school students questionnaire. (4) Flexibility and independence, responsibility, initiative, and interpersonal openness were the 4 dimensions that were gotten by the survey results of adolescent students questionnaire. At last, it discussed: (1) the rationality of the personality construal of self-supporting; (2) characters of the openness and responsibility dimensions of self-supporting personality; (3) the sameness level of structure of self-supporting personality for college students, senior high school students, and junior high school students; (4) the advantages and disadvantages for the method of this study to explore structure of self-supporting personality.

Keywords: self-supporting; self-supporting personality; personality trait adjectives; adolescent students

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