Personality Profiles of Subjects With Different Cognitive Styles

Abstract

The relationships between cognitive styles and some important characteristics of personality were studied in 421 clinically healthy adults (mean age 30,25 ± 9,71; 176 men). They were examined by the Slocum’s questionnaire (Slocum & Hellriegel, 1983), based on the typology of cognitive styles of Carl Jung (Jung, 1923) with the aim to determine the individually preferred cognitive style – sensing-thinking (left-hemispheric style), intuition-feeling (right-hemispheric style), intuition-thinking and sensing-feeling (mixed styles), and subsequently by Gießen-test, with the aim to assess the following characteristics of personality social resonance, dominance/subordination, self-control, underlying mood, permeability and social potency/impotency. The results showed that the cognitive style is a factor initiating significant differences between groups with different cognitive styles regarding the characteristics dominance/subordination and underlying mood. The group with the right-hemispheric cognitive style intuition-feeling tended to subordination and depressive mood. The other groups tended to dominance and hypomanic mood.

Language: Bulgarian