WAR IN CHILDREN'S LINGUISTIC CREATIONS – PERSONALITY TRAITS AND CONCEPTUALISATION OF IDEAS

Abstract

The presented article focuses on analyzing children’s ability to form a concept of war with relation to personality traits based on Five Factor Model. We present the preliminary study on ten selected children age 11-12 from one school situated close to the military area (NATO base Orzysz, Poland). Children were asked to write a story about war and their stories were analyzed gualitatively by pedagogists from linguistic perspective and by psychologists from personality traits perspective. The study enables us to compare dominant categories in children’s narratives with their dominant personality traits.