Season of birth and personality in healthy yong adults

摘要

The purpse of this study was to explore a possible season of birth effect on big five personality traits, taking into account also gender and circadian typology variables.A sample of 419 healthy young adults (249 females and 170 males ) was administerd the self-report version of the Big Five Observer (BFO) and the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaaire(MEQ)to setermine, respectively, personalityfeatuers and cicadian preference.Panricioaner were subdivided into four season groups, according to their birth date.No significant seacon of birth effect was observed as refards oersonality trauts even if summer-born participanes tended to score liwer on the consicerntiousness dimension.In regard to the conscientiousness domain,there was a sigificant interacition between gender and season of birth.Males presented greater conscientiousness variation with summer bourn participants scoring lower.On the basis of a multiple regression of birth.The results provide on clear evidence for a season of birth effect on thebig five pwesonality season of birth .The results provide on clear evidence for a season of birth effect on personality traits.traits.It is possible that ciraadian preference may modulate the season of birth effect on persinality traits