The Influence of Personality Type on the Level of Tolerance

Abstract

Tolerance as the ability to understand and accept the others, awareness of the value of one's personality and the people around them, respect for them, a sense of solidarity and a desire for cooperation, are now of paramount importance. In many ways, the development of tolerance is influenced by a person's personal qualities, his characteristics. We assumed that the level of tolerance is influenced by a person's personality type. The classification of K. Jung was taken as a basis. The sample consisted of 52 people from dormitories No. 17 and No. 19 of the Siberian Federal University of Krasnoyarsk, located next to each other. The age of the subjects is 20-22 years. There are 35 men and 17 women from different institutes and training areas. The purpose of the study: to study the influence of personality type on the level of tolerance. According to the results, our hypothesis that extroverts and ambiverts are characterized by a high level of tolerance, which is associated with a personal need for communication and interaction with others for these types, and for an introvert – a low level of tolerance, has not been confirmed. The reliability of the differences between the groups of subjects was not confirmed as a result of using a nonparametric method of comparing independent samples using the Mann-Whitney U-test. We assume that tolerance as a complex systemic quality of a person should be studied using an integrated approach, which is based on the fact that three main levels can be distinguished in the structure of tolerance: biological, psychological, social.