Relação entre a Percepção de Cenas de Interações Sociais e Personalidade em Adolescentes

Abstract

The social interactions established between people are modulated due to their personality traits. This study is a pilot study that seeks to investigate the relationship between personality and self-identification with passive, aggressive and assertive behavioral styles in adolescents. To access the personality, the BFI-20 was used, which is a shorter version of the BFI. To assess self-identification with behavioral styles, vignettes representing the respective behavioral styles were created. These vignettes consist of three images, the first being the context of a situation of social interaction between teenagers, the second an aggression made by one of the characters to another and the third, the outcome, in which the character who suffered the aggression responds in a passive, aggressive or assertive manner. They were shown to the volunteers and after viewing them, four questions were asked regarding whether they would act in the same way, and how they would feel when performing the action. A moderate negative correlation was identified between the neuroticism personality factor and the likelihood of acting in the same way in vignettes with an aggressive outcome. This work underwent several changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the results may be influenced by this context.