Características de personalidad infantil asociadas al riesgo ambiental por situación de pobreza

an individual's context affects the way in which their biological and psychological subsystems function and interacts with each other. while individuals are normally able to manipulate their environment, personality factors increase or diminish their context characteristics, which at the same time influence personality. heredity and socio-environmental personality factors should not be considered separate elements, but rather a holistic approach as an individual-environment system that functions as a whole. therefore, an unfavorable environment is a socio-environmental variable that interacts with children's heredity, thus influencing the development of certain personality traits. based on the above, the specific goal of our research was to compare personality characteristics of children at risk due to poverty and children without risk due to poverty. we applied the child personality questionnaire for argentina (cuestionario argentino de personalidad infantil - capi) for children aged 6 to 8 (lemos, 2005). we compared personality profiles from both groups through manova, as well as comparisons of means and graphic profiles. based on this analysis, we observed significant differences regarding personality factors [f de hotelling (5, 168) = 2.47; p = .035], as well as facets [f de hotelling (14, 159) = 2.607; p = .002], among children at risk due to poverty and those who were not. there were significant differences particularly in conscientiousness [f(1) = 4.35; p = .038] and the following facets: competence [f(1) = 4.652; p = .032], vulnerability [f(1) = 9.732; p = .002], gregariousness and positive affect [f(1) = 8.338; p = .004], order [f(1) = 6.798; p = .010] and action [f(1) = 4.233; p = .041]. the tendencies of the results are as follows: the group at risk scored lower in conscientiousness, and regarding facets: competence, gregariousness, positive affect, order, action and vulnerability. with regards to conscientiousness, which includes order, organization and