Differences in personality traits in children and adult bilinguals: A pilot study in a bilingual Friulian–Italian context

• Autores: Anastasia Fabbro, Cristiano Crescentini, Eric Pascoli, Simona Screm, Damiano Cantone, Franco Fabbro
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 23, Nº 3, 2020, págs. 631-638
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We investigated changes in self-representation depending on language in Friulian–Italian bilinguals. The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Junior-TCI were administered respectively to 24 adults and 25 children, both in Friulian and in Italian, at a distance of two weeks from each other. Variations in TCI were detected: both adults and children scored higher in Self-Directedness (a character trait) when using Italian than Friulian. Similar findings were observed for Novelty-Seeking (a temperament trait) in children and Cooperativeness (another character trait) in adults. Results are discussed considering previous studies on bilingualism and within the frame of the Friulian sociolinguistic context.