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| Published: June 25, 2020
Applying an Indian personality model on a German sample: finding the three Gunas in Germans
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, MSU, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Institute of Psychology, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabruk, Germany Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.020/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.020
ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to improve on the attempt of Seiffert & Roy (2018) to test the applicability of a direct translation of Roy &Sharma SRT-Questionnaire by adapting the items not only in terms of language but also in terms of content. The scale prepared by Seiffert & Roy was improved and administered on German sample. The new data was subjected to factor analysis and compared with previous analyses. The findings suggest that the changed questionnaire fits the original suggested division into components distinctly worse than the data which was surveyed with the questionnaires version which was developed by Seiffer & Roy (2018). Seiffert & Roy`s questionnaire was more successful and were accountable for 56.67% of all variability. Interesting findings were the correlations between proneness to flow with sattvic traits. In future research, comparison of more valid triguna-scales (for example the original one designed by Roy & Sharma) with adapted flow-scales inside the Indian context might show more concise correlations, as the Triguna theory seems more applicable on people with an Indian background.
Keywords
German Population, Culture, Indian psychology, Triguna, Flow, Personality
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, G Roy & J Geuking
Received: April 02, 2020; Revision Received: May 16, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.020/20200802
10.25215/0802.020
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020