Personality characteristics attributed to people with intellectual disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This paper describes a conceptual replication of a study of the personality characteristics that Zigler's theory of personality attributes to people with intellectual disability. Our study is the first attempt in over twenty years to assess specific personality traits considered in this theory using experimental tasks.

Participants and procedure

We studied 25 students of special vocational schools diagnosed with mild intellectual disability, 25 controls from mainstream vocational schools, and 25 primary school students with a similar level of general cognitive ability as that of the students with intellectual disability. We hypothesized that the levels of specific personality traits of people with intellectual disability would differ from those of controls from th

SUBMITTER: Gacek M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12427068 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature