Social Change and Personality Development in a Nigerian Sample

Mary Nwoke and JohnBosco Chukwuorji

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, 164

Abstract: This study explored the relationship of social change and personality development in a sample of Nigerianstudents. Social change was taken to mean people’s perceptions of the trends of social events while personalitydevelopment was the manifestations of the Big Five Personality traits which are extraversion, agreeableness,conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience. It was hypothesized that personality traits will notsignificantly be a predictor of social trends. Social change was measured using the index of social trendsdeveloped by the researchers while personality development was measured using the Big Five Inventory. Resultsof the multiple regression analysis showed that social change or trends was predicted by the personality traits ofextraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience but social trend was not predicted byneuroticism. Within the framework of social cognitive theory and social Darwinism, the relevance of thefindings to human development and social policy formulation were highlighted.

Date: 2011
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