Personality Characteristics of the Nentsy in the Russian Arctic

Fifty female and 30 male students of Nenets ethnicity were compared with 46 female and 34 male students of Russian ethnicity by means of the Russian adaptations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). On the NEO-PI-R, there were 14 significan...

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Published in:American Behavioral Scientist
Main Authors: DRAGUNS, JURIS G., KRYLOVA, ANNA V., ORYOL, VALERY E., RUKAVISHNIKOV, ALEXEY A., MARTIN, THOMAS A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2000
Subjects:
Arctic
nenets
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027640021956026
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00027640021956026
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Summary:Fifty female and 30 male students of Nenets ethnicity were compared with 46 female and 34 male students of Russian ethnicity by means of the Russian adaptations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). On the NEO-PI-R, there were 14 significant differences out of the 35 comparisons, and on the POI, 8 out of 10. Nenets participants scored lower in Openness to Experience and Extraversion on the NEO-PI-R and lower on Self-Actualization, Spontaneity, and Self-Acceptance on the POI. These results are integrated with other psychological and anthropological findings about the Nentsy, and several lines of follow-up research are proposed.

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