title: Do students with dyslexia have a different personality profile as measured with the big five?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few studies are available about the personality profile of higher education students with dyslexia and to which extent this could be any different from their non-dyslexic peers. AIMS AND SAMPLES: To obtain empirical evidence, we compared the personality profile of a group of 100 Dutch-speaking students with dyslexia with that of a control group of 100 students without learning disabilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  The NEO-PI-R based on the Big Five in personality research was used.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study showed no differences in the personality between both groups. This agrees with a recent meta-analysis of English findings (Swanson & Hsieh, 2009), suggesting that students with dyslexia do not perceive themselves differently than their non-dyslexic peers. Practical implications and directions for future research are considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. wimtops@gmail.com
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tops
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Verguts
authors.forename: Maaike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Callens
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brysbaert
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult