Personality and Anxiety: Psychological Study on Boys and Girls

Abstract

Personality traits and most anxiety disorders are strongly related. In this article, many studies have established an association between the characteristics of anxiety and personality characteristics such as neuroticism. Some study suggests that anxiety and personality play an important role in society. However, some additional research is needed to explore this relationship further. The present study aimed to investigate and examine the relationship between anxiety and personality. total of 30 males and 30 females were administered a big-five inventory by Costa and McCrae and a self-analysis form by Raymond B. Cattell. The study aimed to measure the strong association between anxiety and five dimensions of personality; it hypothesizes that anxiety and neuroticism are positively related to each other, whereas five different hypotheses were framed and tested in the study, the collected data were treated by mean and standard deviation, and finally, the correlation was computed. Only the first hypothesis got support from the result of a relationship between anxiety and the four-factor of personality, namely extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, which were found to be non-significant.