Creencias Implícitas acerca de las personas responsables y las personas irresponsables

Resumen

Beliefs regarding responsible and irresponsible people were investigated, considering the Implicit Theories of Personality frameword and the psycholexical approach. The sample was 520 subjects, between 18 and 30 years old, students in the first and fourth years of the degrees of Psychology and Nursing in 2019, in two Spanish private universities. The main results obtained were: beliefs about responsible and irresponsible people can be explained by attending to less than 10 highly differentiating descriptive terms, the Spanish taxonomy of personality terms (Iraegui, 1998) is exhaustive and sufficient to explain beliefs; especially, the Responsibility, Integrity and Agreeableness factors of this taxonomy are the best differentiating the responsible from the irresponsible, [the positive poles of these factors are the best explaining beliefs about responsible people, and the negative ones the best to irresponsible people, the Integrity factor has a different role depending on how it is used to qualify the person responsible versus the irresponsible, the Extraversion factor does not serve to differentiate the person responsible from the irresponsible, no sociodemographic variable had any significant influence on the beliefs, and the results obtained are similar in the two study methodologies used (spontaneous citation of descriptor adjectives, and assessment of terms from the Spanish taxonomy of personality terms). It is suggested that Responsibility is an explicable construct at a macro level from Work and Ethics, and at a micro level from Continuity and Safety. Practical applications to promote responsability and minimize irresponsibility are proposed.