Resilience and personality. Orientation to failure as personality trait of Romanian people viewed from a historical perspective.

摘要

Orientation to failure was identified in an exploratory factor analysis carried on the responses at Five Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire collected from a national representative sample of 1600 adult participants. We started to investigate around this factor pointing to a cultural specific personality trait of Romanian people, aiming to describe its psychological meaning and potential impact on resilience at a social level and in the same time to identify if a historical - social explanation is possible for. The investigation illustrates an interdisciplinary perspective creating bridges between a clinical psychological perspective and a social - historical one. The paper presents the results coming from a number of qualitative investigations, done using a group of experts from social sciences and humanities, in order to describe the meaning of identified personality factor and its impact on resilience. The paper is also focused on presenting the main arguments and conclusions of a historical investigation, which was done to explore if development of a reasonable explanation is possible at social and cultural level for Romanian people for the existence of the identified factor. Also, the paper focuses on methodological details of the subsequent investigations.