Psychosocial development and the big five personality traits among Chinese university students》.pdf

Learning and Individual Differences 23 (2013) 163–167 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Learning and Individual Differences jour nal homepage: /locate/lindif Psychosocial development and the big five personality traits among Chinese ☆ university students Li-fang Zhang ⁎ The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This study explores how psychosocial development and personality traits are related. In particular, the study Received 9 November 2011 investigates the predictive power of the successful resolution of the Eriksonian psychosocial crises for the Received in revised form 28 February 2012 Big Five personality traits beyond age and gender. Four hundred university students in mainland China Accepted 23 July 2012 responded to the Measures of Psychosocial Development and to the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Results indicate that the successful resolution of particular Eriksonian crises reversely predicted neuroticism, but positively Keywords: predicted extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The amounts of these contributions Eriksonian stages Personality traits went substantially beyond what was predicted by age and gender. Implications of the findings are discussed Chinese university students in relation to research a