AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY AND GENDER AS PREDICTOR OF COPING WITH SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY

AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY AND GENDER

ABSTRACT

Personality psychology is undoubtedly a vast subject with numerous theoretical approaches (McAdams & Olson 20 I 0). Personality is easy to notice but difficult to pin down. According to Allport (1961), personality is the dynamic organisation within a person of the psychological and physical systems that underpin that person’s patterns of actions, thoughts, and feelings. What dynamics becomes assumed, and what systems proposes to underpin those dynamics, vary greatly across theoretical perspectives. Evidence has pointed to the robustness of personality traits in explaining subjective well-being (Costa, & McCrae, 1998; David & Suls, 1999). AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY AND GENDER

More so,this has established an acknowledgement and application in psychology, sociology, and management (Clayson & Sheffect, 2006). The Five Factor Model ((Costa & McCrae, 1989) which is generally and widely used in researching the role of personality on life satisfaction. These personality traits are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Extroversion is primarily concerned with the quantity and intensity of relationships (Dneve & Cooper, 1998). Extraverted people are sociable, gregarious, and assertive (Costa & McCrae, 1992). They are prone to reward in interpersonal relationships (Watson & Clark, 1997) and are predisposed to experience positive emotion (Costa & McCrea, 1992). People who are agreeable are friendly and cooperative. AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY AND GENDER

Flexibility, trust, forgiveness, and tolerance are all related behaviours (McCrae & Costa, 1986). Conscientious individuals exhibit characteristics such as being careful, thorough, responsible, organised, and goal-oriented (McCrae & Costa, 1986). Imaginative and carouse tendencies are characterising openness to experience. People who are highly open are original, cultured, broadminded, and intelligent (McCaer & Costa, 1986). Individuals with high neuroticism have more negative life events than others (Magnus, Diener, Fujita, & Pavot, 1993). Anxiety, depression, emotionality, worries, and insecurity all are related behaviours.

AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY AND GENDER.