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Dárcovství krve a dimenze pětifaktorového modelu osobnosti
Blood donation and dimensions of five-factor personality model

Author(s): Zdeněk Mlčák
Subject(s): Personality Psychology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: blood donors; five-factor model of personality; extraversion; agreeableness; neuroticism;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of some personality aspects of blood donors that are conceptualised like the dimensions of five-factor personality model. In the theoretical passage of this paper are remarked also other approaches to study of this problem in short oveview. For the identification personality dimension was employed NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), that was applicated in sample univerzity students (n = 940) in Ostrava. The research result show, that the blood donors, male and female (n = 127), demonstrate higher level of the extraversion than nondonors (n = 813). Male donors show higher level of the agreeableness than male nondonors and female donors prove lover level of the neuroticism than female nondonors. This research findings can be use in recruitment of new blood donors for example.

  • Page Range: 264-269
  • Page Count: 6
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: Czech