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The Role of Openness to Experience in Anticipation of the Identity Styles and Commitment

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tehran

2 M.A. in General Psychology, University of Tehran

Abstract

Because of the importance of personality traits in the development of identity styles, the present study investigated the role of openness to experience in anticipation of the identity styles and commitment. To do this, by using research method of correlation, 115 female students at University of Tehran were randomly selected and administered the Openness to Experience subscale of Costa& McCrae Personality Inventory (NEOPI-R) and Berzonsky Identity Style Inventory (ISI-4). Results showed that fantasy negatively and significantly correlated with informative identity style, and ideas positively and significantly correlated with informative identity style. Also, Results showed significant negative relationship between the total score of openness to experience, ideas, aesthetics, values and normative identity style. Furthermore, ideas and aesthetics were negatively and significantly correlated with diffuse-avoidant identity style. Besides, significant positive relationship between ideas and commitment was observed. Moreover, ideas and feelings positively anticipated and fantasy negatively anticipated the informative identity style variances. And the total score of openness to experience negatively anticipated and feelings positively anticipated the normative identity style and only ideas of the openness to experience dimensions negatively anticipated diffuse-avoidant identity style. Also, ideas positively anticipated and values negatively anticipated commitment variances. The results indicated that personality trait of the openness to experience plays an important role in the development of identity styles and commitment.

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Educational Psychology
Volume 12, Issue 39
April 2016
Pages 97-117
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