Differentiation of self: man between his rationality and his emotionality

Abstract

The study measured and researched the relationship of self-differentiation with the main personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and with a number of highly important personality patterns: authoritarian, narcissistic, borderline, artificial, dependent, and avoidant. The self-differentiation short checklist of Drake 2011, the ten-item personality checklist of Muck, Hell & Gosling 2007, the right-handed authoritarian personality scale of Mavor, Louis & Sibley 2010, the narcissistic personality scale of Hendin & Cheek 2013, and the borderline, artificial, dependent and avoidant personality scales of The International Personality Disorder Examination Scale of Loranger, Janca & Sarlorius 1997, on a sample of (588) university students. The results were: high dimensional (I attitude and emotional cut-off), low dimensional (emotional response and dissolution in others) of self-differentiation, moderate extraversion, high acceptability, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness, high authoritarianism, low borderline, moderate narcissism, artificiality, dependency and avoidance, when the sample, and it appeared There is a single significant positive relationship between the two dimensions of emotional responsiveness and dissolution in others. Agreeableness was positively associated with emotional responsiveness and the “I” attitude and dissolution in others, conscientiousness and openness were positively related to the “I” attitude, and neuroticism was negatively related to the four dimensions, and all patterns were negatively associated with the two dimensions of emotional response and dissolution In others, narcissism was also negatively associated with emotional cut-off and borderline with I attitude, neuroticism and agreeableness predicted emotional response, conscientiousness, openness, agreeableness, and neuroticism with I attitude, neuroticism with emotional cut-off, agreeableness, and neuroticism with dissolution in others. Based on these results, a new type of personality was proposed: the rational personality