PERSONALITY PROFILES WITH FIVE FACTOR MODEL IN IMPULSE CONTROL AND GENDER GROUPS

Impulsivity as a symptom may reflect a number of psychiatric disorders and studies have shown that it associated with like violent crimes, aggressivity and etc.Also studies show that men tend to be more impulsive behavior than women.However, there is less study about gender-related in non-clinical populations in impulse control.The aim of this study was to examine personality profile with Five Factor Model in order to in a sample of non-clinical genders groups.Participants (n = 1766, male %49.4,female %50.6, age M = 26.35,s = 10.97) completed lexically-based adjective checklist of impulsiveness scale and bipolar markers for the Five Factor Model.First, two groups were determined as below and above average using the impulsivity scale score.Then, these two groups and gender groups were compared with two-way variance analysis in terms of five-factor personality score.According to the results, there is difference in the five-factor (Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Intellect) score of the low and high impulsivity groups.The personality scores of the high impulsivity group are at a lower level.Male and female groups in low and high impulsivity groups have similar results in five personality factor scores.In addition, there is no interaction between impulsivity groups and gender groups in the five factor score.On the basis of this result, it was concluded that there are no differences in the personality traits of male and female groups in low and high impulsivity groups, but there were differences in the personality traits of low and high impulsivity groups.