Research article summaries

Need help with my Psychology question – I’m studying for my class.

For each summary, please include the article title and authors and then a brief, one paragraph summary. The write up should include a sentence or two describing the study’s purpose, a description of the methods they used and then a few sentences summarizing what they found.

The format is APA. Any questions, please let me know. The articles are attached to this question.

Example: Personality Traits and Self-Esteem by Amirazodi, F and Amirazodi, M.

The researchers conducted a study on university students in Iran in order to evaluate how self esteem is affected by personality styles, to determine which personality style best predicts self-esteem, and gender differences in personality styles. The personality style was measured by the Big 5 Personality Factor’s Scale (which measures degree of openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion) while self esteem was measured by Coopersmith’s Self-Esteem Scale. The researchers found that openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness were all positively correlated with self-esteem while neuroticism was negatively correlated with self-esteem. The same result was found that openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness were all predictors of self-esteem while neuroticism was not a predictor. Lastly, when studying the gender differences the researchers found that the significant difference was in neuroticism, girls tended to score higher in that domain.