Nortasunari buruzko adjektiboak

Abstract

The article analyses the lexicon (principally adjectives) utilized in the Basque language to describe the psychological characteristics, because in our opinion the language offers the adequate mark to understand the personality. To discover the adjectives, we have utilized the Kelly´s Rep-test and the psychological words we have found in 38 novels. In order to study the intercorrelations between the adjectives and the basic dimensions, we have constructed a test similar to the so called semantic differential. A hundred and thirty five subjects solved the Rep-test and forty two subjects answered the second test´s questions. The all were psychology students in the University of the Basque Country. The results agree with the ones obtained in some lexicological studies that have been done in other cultures.