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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
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The Relationship between Iranian Undergraduate Learners’ Blood Type and Their Personality

E. Ahmadi, Ph.D. in Psychology (Shahid Madani University)
A. A. Malekierad, Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (Payame Noor University)
M. Maghsoudi, Ph.D. in TEFL (Farhangian University, Arak)
K. Abdolmohamadi, M.A. Student in Psychology (Tabriz University)
A. Fathi, Ph.D. Student in Educational psychology (Tabriz University)

Abstract

The main aim behind the current study was to investigate the relationship between blood and personality type in undergraduate students of Shahid Madani. The idea that personality differences are related to biological characteristics like blood type is conflicting. The present study evaluated hypotheses that personality characteristic based on the Five-Factor Model (NEO-PI) differ on blood type. 140 Iranian university students completed five subscales of NEO personality inventory. Analysis using multivariate analysis of variance (Wilks' Lambda) for unrelated measures revealed a significant effect of the manipulation blood type at an alpha of .01, Wilks' Lambda = .52, F (5, 115) = 4.72, p = .001. This means that Conscientiousness and Openness are significant in blood type. The lower than O+, in Conscientiousness and A+ is higher than B+, B+ lower than AB+ and O-. A measure of effect size, = .17, indicated a relatively large effect.

Key words: blood type, personality, NEO

1. Introduction

The Big Five model of personality has steadily emerged over the past twenty-five years as a comprehensive taxonomy of individual differences in human personality (John, & Srivastava, 1999). And thus it provides a standard framework within which many other specific personality constructs can be better understood (Boland & Cappeliez, 1997). The five-factor model (FFM) or Big Five is a widely researched model of personality trait structure (John, Naumann & Soto, 2008).

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E. Ahmadi, Ph.D. in Psychology
Shahid Madani University

A. A. Malekierad, Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience
Payame Noor University

M. Maghsoudi, Ph.D. in TEFL
Farhangian University, Arak
maghsudim@yahoo.com

K. Abdolmohamadi, M.A. Student in Psychology
Tabriz University

A. Fathi, Ph.D. Student in Educational psychology
Tabriz University
a.fathi64@gmail.com
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