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The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27486 The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning Cassimjee, Nafisa lisa.melinks@gmail.com Dennison, Lisa Kim Character Temperament and character interest inventory Executive functioning Temperament Psychobiological theory Personality Neuropsychological performance Neuropsychology Neurobiology Cloninger UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Despite emergent attempts to connect temperament to a neurobiological etiology there has been little research that focuses on the relationship between temperament and character and neuropsychological test performance. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the relationship between temperament, character and performance on neuropsychological tests of executive functioning. Temperament and character dimensions were operationalized according to the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), a 240-item measure that is based on the psychobiological theory of personality. Neuropsychological performance was measured on the University of Pennsylvania Computerized Neuropsychological Test Battery (PennCNP), which is a test of executive functioning and abstract reasoning. The PennCNP comprised a test of Motor Praxis (MPRAXIS), the Penn Abstraction, Inhibition and Working Memory Task (AIM), the Letter-N-Back (LNB2), the Penn Conditional Exclusion Task (PCET), the Penn Short Logical Reasoning Task (SPVRT) and the Short Raven’s Progressive Matrices (SRAVEN). The sample comprised 422 first year psychology students at a residential university in South Africa. The results from this explorative study showed a moderate relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning. The temperament dimensions Novelty Seeking and Reward Dependence were positively related to AIM-NM, AIM and SPVRT, and inversely related to MPRAXIS. These results validate the importance of research that investigates the relationship between temperament and character dimensions and neuropsychological performance. Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:38:36Z 2013-08-27 2013-09-07T11:38:36Z 2013-04-11 2012 2013-08-23 Dissertation Dennison, LK 2012, The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27486 > F13/4/763/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27486 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08232013-131011/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Character Temperament and character interest inventory Executive functioning Temperament Psychobiological theory Personality Neuropsychological performance Neuropsychology Neurobiology Cloninger UCTD The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title | The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title_full | The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title_short | The relationship between temperament, character and executive functioning |
| title_sort | relationship between temperament character and executive functioning |
| topic | Character Temperament and character interest inventory Executive functioning Temperament Psychobiological theory Personality Neuropsychological performance Neuropsychology Neurobiology Cloninger UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27486 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08232013-131011/ |