Relações entre a personalidade e as caracteristicas vocais

Abstract

Purpose: To verify if there is a relationship between personality and vocal characteristics of adults. Methods: Observational, cross-sectional study. 41 volunteers participated in the research, who answered the instrument for the Assessment of the Big Five Personality Factors and their facets, and then the voice was collected. The vocal samples underwent auditory-perceptual judgment from the perspective of expert voice judges. Descriptive and non-parametric statistical analysis was performed to verify the relationship between personality and vocal variables. Results: Six facets of personality factors showed significant correlation values with the analyzed vocal characteristics, namely: acceptance (extraversion); competence (conscientiousness); complacency (agreeableness) and depression, anxiety and anger-hostility (neuroticism). Voice professionals had significantly higher averages in the altruism and sensitivity (agreeableness) facets, when compared to non-voice professionals. Participants without vocal symptoms had significantly higher means in the welcoming 2 (extroversion), competence (conscientiousness) and depression (neuroticism) facets when compared to participants with vocal symptoms.Conclusion: There were correlations between personality facets, mainly related to the neuroticism factor, and perceptual and self-perception vocal characteristics.