The Assessment of Prosaically Behaviors and the Impact of Personality Factors on Youth's Prosaically Behaviors in Isfahan

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S.R. Javadian ¹ , Gh. Raheb ² , V. Ghasemi ³ , M. Rahgozar ⁴

1 - یزد
2 - یزد
3 - اصفهان
4 - یزد

Received: 2014-01-03 Accepted : 2014-01-03 Published : 2013-10-23

Keywords: Prosaically Behaviors, five Factors of Personality, Youth,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to see prosaically behaviors and affecting the five factors of personality on youth's prosaically behaviors in Isfahan. For, 520 young males and females living in Esfahan were selected through Probability proportional to size cluster sampling method. The data was collected through NEO-FFI and Prosaically Tendencies Measure Revised. Data was analyzed by factor analysis, regression and structural equation modeling. The results showed that youth's prosaically behaviors was more than average (M= 80.6). They got the highest score on the subscale of anonymous prosaically behaviors (M= 23.6) and emotional prosaically behaviors (M= 21.5). However, they got the lowest score on the subscale of public prosaically behaviors (M= 6.7). In addition, the results of structural equation modeling showed that affecting extraversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness of personality on prosaically behaviors was positive and significant (P<0.01).