Personality styles and suggestibility: A differential approach

•Suggestibility relates to the MIPS-R Thinking Styles.•Suggestibility relates to some of the MIPS-R Behaving Styles.•Imaginative individuals are less suggestible.•Dutiful and cooperative individuals are more suggestible.•Suggestibility does not relate to the MIPS-R maladjustment scales. This study a...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences 2013-08, Vol.55 (4), p.381-386
Main Authors: Pires, Rute, Silva, Danilo R., Ferreira, Ana Sousa
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biological and medical sciences
Forensic psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
GSS1
MIPS-R
Personality styles
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Suggestibility
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Summary:•Suggestibility relates to the MIPS-R Thinking Styles.•Suggestibility relates to some of the MIPS-R Behaving Styles.•Imaginative individuals are less suggestible.•Dutiful and cooperative individuals are more suggestible.•Suggestibility does not relate to the MIPS-R maladjustment scales. 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 (Mage=31.8years, 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.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.017