Comparison of personality traits and gender schemas in sexual and physical damage referred to a coroner with healthy girls in Shiraz

Pages:283-286
Fatemeh Fathinejad and Ali Kamkar (Department of Psychology, Yasouj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasouj, Iran)

The objective of the present study was to compare personality characteristics and gender schemas in the girls suffered from sexual and physical damages referred to forensics with healthy girls in Shiraz. The plan of the study was of comparative- casual kind. The statistical community was the girls suffered from physical and sexual damages referred to Forensics in Shiraz and healthy girls from March 2015 to July 2015. 50 injured girls were selected through the Available Random Sampling Method voluntary from the community list and 50 healthy girls who became counterpart with injured girls from the viewpoint of demographic features participated. NEO personality questionnaire (Revised version) and Bem Sex Role Inventory were applied as study tools. The raw data of the study was analyzed by using SPSS 20 software in two descriptive and inferential levels. The test of hypotheses was evaluated by independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance test. the evaluation of the hypotheses `test showed that there was a significant difference between neurosis (P≤0/003), extroversion (p≤0/033) and accountability(p≤0/000) of two groups, but there was no significant difference between flexibility and desirability of two groups. Meanwhile, there was no significant difference between male sexual schemas (P≤0/155). Also, there was no significant difference between female sexual schemas of two groups (P≤0/878).