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Personality traits and theory of mind: Performance data of a Spanish sample of university students

Authors :
José M. Gavilán
Juan Haro
Source :
Data in Brief, Vol 14, Iss C, Pp 612-617 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2017.

Abstract

This article allows consulting the performance data of 96 Spanish university students in two personality questionnaires and two theory of mind (ToM) tasks. Personality dimensions were evaluated through the OPERAS questionnaire (Vigil-Colet et al., 2013) [1], which evaluates global personality through 5 scales: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience, and the ESQUIZO-Q questionnaire (Fonseca-Pedrero et al., 2010) [2], which assesses schizotypy by means of 10 subscales: ideas of reference, magical thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, odd thinking and language, paranoid ideation, physical anhedonia, social anhedonia, odd behavior, lack of close friends, and excessive social anxiety. The ability to attribute/infer mental states, i.e. ToM, was measured through two computerized tasks: the revised Reading the Mind in the Eyes (Baron-Cohen et al., 1997, 2001) [3,4], and the Director's task (Keysar et al., 2000, 2003; Dumontheil et al., 2010) [5–7].

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23523409
Volume :
14
Issue :
C
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Data in Brief
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7e3917709f0a467b82644eb79a0c8c71
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.08.014