Empathy and Big Five Personality Traits as Correlates of Affective Reactivity Index / Irritability

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Diksha, Dr. Bindu Kumari

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Irritability is a lower threshold of stimulation necessary to elicit anger. It also acts as a red flag for psychopathology. The present study investigated personality traits and empathy as correlates of irritability. Earlier researches indicated that Empathy Exhaustion, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience have relationship with irritability. The study was conducted on 100 adolescents ((Males= 50, Females= 50, Mean Age= 15.36, S.D= 1.47). The Big Five Inventory by John & Srivastva, 1999, Toronto Empathy Questionnaire by Sperng, Mckinnon, Mar & Levine, 2009 and Affective Reactivity Index by Stringeris et al., 2012 were the tools used. Descriptive Statistics, t-test, correlation test were used for statistical analysis. Significant gender differences were found in Extraversion and Irritability scores. Empathy was found in significant relation with Conscientiousness and Agreeableness personality traits. Neuroticism and Irritability were found to be in significant relation with each other.

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