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Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
Published on: May 1, 2020
Do students with dyslexia have a different personality profile as measured with the big five?
Wim Tops1, Ellen Verguts, Maaike Callens
1Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. wimtops@gmail.com
Background:
Few studies are available about the personality profile of higher education students with dyslexia and to which extent this could be any different from their non-dyslexic peers. AIMS AND SAMPLES: To obtain empirical evidence, we compared the personality profile of a group of 100 Dutch-speaking students with dyslexia with that of a control group of 100 students without learning disabilities.
Methods:
The NEO-PI-R based on the Big Five in personality research was used.
Results And Conclusions:
Our study showed no differences in the personality between both groups. This agrees with a recent meta-analysis of English findings (Swanson & Hsieh, 2009), suggesting that students with dyslexia do not perceive themselves differently than their non-dyslexic peers. Practical implications and directions for future research are considered.
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