To study the personality profile of blood donors

Pages: 450-452
Ashu Dhawan and Rajeev Dogra (Department of Psychiatry, Pt. B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana)

The present study investigated possible relationships between blood types and personality within a normal population. Previous research work from published studies claiming associations between blood type and personality is scanty, conflicting. This study predicted that blood donors of b+ ve and o +ve blood group showed lower scores on all TCI dimensions except persistence, finding was same for AB group except they had higher scores on cooperativeness and A+ ve group showing high score on harm avoidance. The blood donors having O-ve group also showed lower scores on all TCI dimensions except high scores on self-transcendence. Participants comprised a sample of blood donors 25 males and 25 females. Temperament Characteristic Inventory developed by Cloninger et al. was administered. Statistical Analysis was done using appropriate statistics from the statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0