PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Big Five Personality Traits, Relational Aggression, Role Theory
10 Feb 2017
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Beliefs about personality similarities and differences between men and women. Some difference in specific mental capacities: women show better verbal ability than men and there are difference in spatial ability; men are better at spatial orientation and women at remembering object locations. Mental disorders between men and women: substance related, childhood, and sexual and gender orientation disorders are more frequent among me. Men exhibit a higher mean level of psychopathy, antisocial behaviour, and criminality than women: mood disorders and depression are more common among women, adhd prevalence between male and female children have no difference. Gender similarities and differences in the five factor model. Women are higher than men in neuroticism. Openness has the smallest gender difference both men women are virtually the same. Women tend to be slightly higher in conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness. In assertiveness men score higher, in tender-mindedness women score higher.
