Open AccessCorrection: Do Students with Dyslexia Have a Different Personality Profile as Measured with the Big Five?
Author(s) -
Wim Tops,
Ellen Verguts,
Maaike Callens,
Marc Brysbaert
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/annotation/65014249-b018-4d08-9def-90c049d5e41b
Subject(s) - dyslexia , personality , psychology , clinical psychology , data science , computer science , reading (process) , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Background: Few studies are available about the personality profile of higher education students with dyslexia and towhich extent this could be any different from their non-dyslexic peers.Aims and Sample(s): To obtain empirical evidence, we compared the personality profile of a group of 100 Dutch-speakingstudents with dyslexia with that of a control group of 100 students without learning disabilities.Methods: The NEO-PI-R based on the Big Five in personality research was used.Results and Conclusions: Our study showed no differences in the personality between both groups. This agrees with arecent meta-analysis of English findings (Swanson & Hsieh, 2009), suggesting that students with dyslexia do not perceivethemselves differently than their non-dyslexic peers. Practical implications and directions for future research are considered.status: publishe