title: Personality dimensions in a 70-year-old urban population. Norms for the MNT scales and sex and age relations.
abstract: The three personality dimensions validity, solidity and stability according to Sjöbring were measured by means of the MNT scales in representative samples of 70-year-old men and women taking part in a health control survey in Gothenburg, Sweden. Means, standard deviations, stanine scores and a comparison with results from other Swedish studies pertaining to representative samples of middle-aged men and women and 16-year-old boys and girls are presented. Seventy-year-old men scored higher than 70-year-old women on validity, as did men in all other age-groups. The difference could, to some extent, be related to the lower prevalence of neurosis and personality deviations in men. There was no difference between the sexes in the 70-year-olds nor in the middle-aged people with regard to solidity and stability. Sixteen-year-old boys scored higher on stability than 16-year-old girls. Seventy-year-olds of both sexes scored lower on validity than 45-year-olds of both sexes and 70-year-old men scored higher on stability than 45-year-old men. The size of the differences of personality dimensions between the sexes was similar in 70-year-olds and 45-year-olds, and the standard deviations of the personality dimensions were also similar between the 70-year-olds and the 45-year-olds.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D014505:Urban Population