Personality traits as predictors of affective styles among young people.

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the understanding of personality traitprediction in anticipating a particular affective style among youngpeople. The sample consists of 171 students from University ofPriština in Kosovska Mitrovica, of both genders, aged 18–26. Thedata have been processed using descriptive statistics, correlationand regression analysis, and t-test. The most dominant dimensionof personality is agreeableness, and the most dominant dimensionof affective styles is adjusting. The prediction of personality dimen-sions in predicting a certain affective style has been confirmed, sothat neuroticism is essential in the prediction of all three affectivestyles. In the prediction of affective style of concealing, personalitytraits as a model explain 10.7% variance, and besides neuroticism(β= -298; p <0.01), the contribution has been given by extraversion,as well (β = -221, p <0.05). The personality traits explain 36.1% of thevariance of adjusting, and the unique contribution has been givenby neuroticism (β = -.596, p <0.01), while in the prediction of affec-tive style of tolerating, personality traits explain 9.8% of the total variance, with a significant predictor – neuroticism (β = -.241,p<0.05). Gender has not proven to be a significant source of differ-ences in the expression of affective styles, while there are genderdifferences in the expression of extraversion and agreeableness infavour of female respondents.