Original scientific paper
The Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship between Personality Traits and Nonverbal Social Skills
Josip Burušić
Maja Tadić
Abstract
The general purpose of this paper is to examine the role of
self-esteem in the relationship between Big Five personality
traits, measured with the Big Five Inventory (John and
Srivastava, 1999), and nonverbal social skills: emotional
expressiveness, emotional sensitivity and emotional control,
measured with the Social Skills Inventory (Riggio, 1986). The
participants in this study were 303 students of Zagreb
University. The results revealed the significant predictive power
of Big Five personality dimensions on nonverbal social skills,
and showed support for moderator and partial mediator
effects of self-esteem on that relationship. Overall, the findings
indicate mostly a significant role of self-esteem in the effects of
neuroticism on the manifestation of nonverbal social skills.
Keywords
self-esteem; social skills; personality; positive psychology
Hrčak ID:
10877
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2006.
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