Gender differences in crying behavior and personality traits among university students
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2016
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UMT.Lahore
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The objective of this study is to investigate gender differences in crying frequency and crying proneness, relation between personality pattern and crying behavior and to explore if age, gender and neuroticism influence crying behavior. It was hypothesized that women have more proneness for crying behavior and neuroticism; women would be higher in neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness than men. Persons with high crying behavior will display different levels of personality traits. Crying proneness is more related to neuroticism than other personality traits. The research involves correctional design to find relationship between crying behavior and five personality traits. Pearson product correlation and regression analysis was used for this purpose. Gender differences were explored through independent sample t test. The sample consisted of males and female students of age range 18-22 years from University of Management and Technology Lahore. The sample size is 146 (73=males, 73=females). Convenient sampling technique was applied, the results showed mean scores of women were significantly higher than those of men. There were no difference between the mean scores on personality trait of men and women except on conscientiousness. Women reported themselves as significantly higher on conscientiousness than men. Low scorers on mood states and situation (Part A) of Adult crying inventory were significantly stronger on neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness. On agreeableness, both high and low scoring crying behavior groups scored more or less the same. Gender was significantly more robust predictor among the controlled variables and only neuroticism predicted significantly among the personality traits. The importance of this study was to explore the emotional aspects of human beings and to bring awareness among people.