Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression, Aggression, Stress, Dominance, Warmth of Meitei Community in Manipur : A Study Based on Factor Analytic Approach

This paper is about the study of personality traits, anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance, warmth of Meitei community in Manipur. The main objective of this study is “to find out the correlation of personality traits i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness of Meitei community; to find the correlation of personality and measures of the personality assessment inventory, i.e., Anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance and warmth; to find out the correlation of anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance and warmth of the Meitei community; to find out the factor structure of all the variables, neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance, warmth of Meitei community. Trying to fullfill these objectives, the investigator randomly selected 140 participants from the normal population in Meitei community ranging age level of 20-60 yrs. Results are evaluated by mean, median, and factor analysis to find out the factor structure for the participants. For 140 subjects the correlation coefficients of .15 and .20 are significant at .05 and .01 levels of significance respectively. From the result, In general, the intercorrelations among five measures of personality are low ranging between -0.6 to.60. out of 10 intercorrelation, 9 correlations are significant at or beyond .05 level. In general the correlations between five measures of personality and 6 measures of personality assessment inventory i.e., anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance,and warmth are low ranging from -.37 to .39. Out of the 30 correlations, only 19 correlations are significant at or above .05 level of significance. In general, the intercorrelations among 6 measures of anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, dominance and warmth variables are low ranging between -.22 to .68. out of 15 intercorrelations, 8 correlations are significant at or above .05 level. In this study, the investigator found 4 factors; namely general factor of personality (factor-I); neurotic factor (factor-II); well-organized factor (factor-III); and autonomous factor(Factor-IV).