Personality Styles and Suggestibility: A Differential Approach

• Author(s): Pires, Rute ; Silva, Danilo R. ; Ferreira, Ana Sousa
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9002
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Forensic Psychology; Suggestibility; Personality styles; GSS1; MIPS-R
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This study addresses the relationship between personality styles measured with the Portuguese adaptation of the Millon Index of Personality Styles Revised – MIPS-R and interrogative suggestibility assessed by the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale – GSS1. Hypotheses predicted individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences correspond to differences in individuals’ personality styles. The study was conducted with a sample of 258 individuals (M age = 31.8 years, SD = 12.0). Results showed that there were individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences corresponded to certain personality characteristics, mainly related to the Thinking Styles and some Behaving Styles.