Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between three subscales of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult Form (BRIEF-A) and the Big Five personality traits. The data used for this study consists of 126 hearing, college age participants from the Rochester Institute of Technology who were used as a control group for a previous study. As hypothesized, Emotional Regulation and Shift scales of the BRIEF shared a significant negative correlation with Neuroticism. Contrary to the hypothesis, the scale Inhibit shared a positive correlation with Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Shift was significantly correlated with Openness to Experience. No relationship was found between Inhibit and Extraversion and Neuroticism, as was initially hypothesized (Jackson, 2005, and Wolfe and Kasmer, 1998).
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Personality tests; Executive ability
Publication Date
4-10-2009
Document Type
Thesis
Student Type
Graduate
Degree Name
School Psychology (MS)
Department, Program, or Center
Psychology (CLA)
Advisor
Jennifer Lukomski
Advisor/Committee Member
Scott Merydith
Recommended Citation
Formicola, Kira, "Exploring the Relationships between Executive Functions and The Big Five Personality Traits using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning-Adult Form" (2009). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/9328
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Plan Codes
SCPSYC-MS
Comments
Physical copy available from RIT's Wallace Library at BF698.5 .F67 2009