A Study On Personality Traits And Emotions Of Floating Children

Recently, the number of migrant children shows a sharp rise, which forms alarge-scale special group. Migrant Children,compared with normal children, has arich mobile experience that has an important effect on their psychologicaldevelopment,which causes plenty of research scholars’ attention. Negative emotionalproblem is the most important problem to migrant children. Many studies pointedthat most of them experience different negative emotion----anxiety, loneliness anddepression. Do the long-term negative emotional state have an impact on thepersonality characteristic of migrant children? The study was designed to explore thieproblem.The subjects selected from Chuan Kou Primary School and Chuan YuanPrimary School in Qinghai Province,and the test includes Eysenck PersonalityQuestionnaire Children, Children’s Loneliness Scale and State-Trait AnxietyInventory. The results were as follows:1. On personality traits, the average score of Neuroticism dimension wassignificantly higher than the norms of the Chinese boy (P<0.001), the average scoreof Psychoticism dimension was lower than the norm significantly(P<0.001). Theaverage score of Psychoticism dimension of girls was lower than the norm of theChinese girl significantly(P<0.05), the average score of Neuroticism dimension ofgirls was significantly higher than the norm of the Chinese girls (P<0.05). Theaverage score of N dimention of the Migrant Children who showed satisfied with theirfamily was significantly higher than the children who showd very satisfied with theirfamily (P<0.05).2.On the degree of loneliness, the average score of Loneliness of boys wassignificantly higher than girls (P<0.05). The average score of Loneliness of Migrantchildren in the sixth grade significantly was lower than the average score of the thirdgrade, fourth grade and fifth grade respectively(P<0.01).3.On the degree of anxiety, Migrant Children’ average score is significantlyhigher than the national norm (P<0.001). The average score of Loneliness of Migrantchildren whose mother has graduate degree was significantly higer than the averagescore of the rest of children except some of them whose mother has bachelor degree(P<0.05).4. The correlation between personality characteristic and the degree of lonelinessand anxiety. Neuroticism and Psychoticism dimension and loneliness had positivecorrelation. Lie and Extraversion dimension and loneliness had negative correlation. Neuroticism and Trait Anxiety had a significantly correlation. Lie dimension andState Anxiety were significantly correlated.5. Multiple regression analysis showed that loneliness and state anxiety could predictExtraversion dimension negatively, whereas trait anxiety could predict thatpositively.Trait anxiety and loneliness had a positive prediction to Neuroticismdimension,state anxiety predicted Neuroticism dimension negatively. Traitanxiety,state anxiety and loneness positively predicted Psychoticism dimension.Loneliness and trait anxiety in predicting Lie dimension is positive, while stateanxiety negative.