Rasgos de personalidad y su relación con creencias irracionales en estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the relationship between personality characteristics and irrational beliefs in a group of college students. This study was applied to 94 students of which, through exclusion criteria, the population was reduced to 77 participants. It was applied a personality factor questionnaire 16 PF to evaluate the personality characteristics while the irrational beliefs questionnaire (TCI) was used to evaluate the irrational beliefs. The analysis of these variables was performed through Spearman's Rho test. It was observed that there is no statistically significant correlation between the variables, / with r = -,114, which shows an inversely proportional correlation between personality traits and irrational beliefs in the sample of university students. It was demonstrated as the frequency of personality characteristics decreases, irrational ideas increase, or vice versa. Moreover, it was also found that the relationship between the variable of personality characteristics and sex of the population maintains a higher significance 050. It means there is not a statistically significant difference, as well as the variable of irrational beliefs between men and women (RM = 24,50) y (RM = 24,50), it was demonstrated there is no statistically significant difference (U = 216.000 p>0.05) to irrational belief helplessness, nor Need for Approval (U = 13.500 p>0.05); nor for the Dependency factor (U = 7,000 p>0.05).