Personality characteristics of the Nentsy in the Russian Arctic - A comparison with ethnic Russians by means of NEO-PI-R and POI

Fifty female and 30 male students of Nenets ethnicity were compared with 46 female and 34 male students of Russian ethnicity by means of the Russian a daptations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and the Pers onal Orientation Inventory (POI). On the NEO-PI-R, there were 14 significan t differences out of the 35 comparisons, and on the POI, 8 out of 10. Nenet s participants scored lower in Openness to Experience and Extraversion on t he NEO-PI-R and lower on Self-Actualization, Spontaneity, and Self-Acceptan ce on the POI. These results are integrated with other psychological and an thropological findings about the Nentsy, and several lines of follow-up res earch are proposed.