Study for temperament-personality factors affecting contagious yawning

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380886
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Iwaki Meisei University
• Principal Investigator: Ohara Takahiro いわき明星大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (00347973)
• Research Collaborator: Honda Akio 山梨英和大学, 人間文化学部, 准教授 (80433564)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: あくび伝染 / 性格・気質 / 特性５因子 / TCI-R / 情動伝染

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I examined the relation between individual differences in contagious yawning and temperament-personality factors. Results revealed that contagious yawning frequency is positively associated with “Extraversion”, “Self-Directedness” and “emotion contagion”, and is negatively associated with “Conscientiousness” and “Reward-Dependence”. These results suggested that factors as empathy do not only have a facilitating effect (emotion contagion), but also inhibitory effect (Reward-Dependence) on contagious yawning. Furthermore, the results showed that in addition to interest to others (Extraversion), interest to self (Self-Directedness) also facilitates contagious yawning.

Free Research Field

認知心理学