A Research on the Role of Special Education Students' Personality Type in Professional Identification
- Received Date: 19/09/2017
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Key words:
- special education /
- professional identity /
- big five personality /
- prejudice /
- mediating effect
Abstract: This paper aims at exploring the relationship between professional identification, personality types and social prejudice perceived among college students majoring in special education. At total of 292 college students majoring in special education were investigated with the professional identity questionnaire, personality types' questionnaire and the questionnaire of their social prejudice. The results show as follows. First, Special education students' professional identification has apparent negative correlation with the prejudices of their future and majors; it has significantly positive correlation with four kinds of personality types of preciseness, agreeableness, openness and extraversion; but it has apparent negative correlation with nervousness. Second, preciseness, agreeableness and openness have direct effect on the professional identification of special education students; neuroticism and extraversion affect their professional identification indirectly by the prejudices of majors which perceived by special education students.