Impact of personality traits on interpersonal dependency

Abstract

Every person has a unique personality. A set of characteristics or qualities possessed by an individual is called as the personality traits. Interpersonal dependency refers to the amount of support that an individual gets from the other person and the level of it gets varied among the people. Those who have higher interpersonal dependency are labeled as low self- esteemed person. The present study is initiated to identify the traits possessed by an interpersonal dependent. An adapted questionnaire is used for the study. Totally the questionnaire consists of seventeen questions among which ten questions measured the variable personality traits and the remaining seven questions measured the variable interpersonal dependence. The data was collected from fifty employees working in corporate for the present study. Content and face validities are used to assess the validity. Inferences are drawn through the use of descriptive and inferential statistic.