Through this research, it has been studied the relationship between personality traits and non-cognitive skills. The hypotheses of this study are that there is a positive correlation between a high level of extraversion and physical abilities, and there is a positive correlation between a high level of autonomy and musical abilities. | Identifyng the relationships between personality traits and non-cognitive skills Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 4 94-106 March 2020 ISSN 2668-7798 Identifyng the relationships between personality traits and non-cognitive skills Călin Mariana Floricica Ovidius University of Constanța Romania fmarianacalin@ Radu Andrei Mihai Ovidius University of Constanța Romania anduxsg@ Abstract. Through this research it has been studied the relationship between personality traits and non-cognitive skills. The hypotheses of this study are that there is a positive correlation between a high level of extraversion and physical abilities and there is a positive correlation between a high level of autonomy and musical abilities. The research was conducted through two research tools the purpose of which was to identify and evaluate personality traits and non-cognitive skills. The group of participants consists of 120 people aged between 18 and 33 years. The study results attest the validity of the assumptions. In both cases personality traits are a possible predictor of the development of non-cognitive skills while the latter are a possible modeling factor for the personality. Keywords. personality traits non-cognitive skills autonomy musical abilities extraversion physical abilities. 1. Introduction The personality term comes from the Latin persona which represents the name of the theater masks used by the romans actors when they were performing Greek theater pieces. The role of the mask consists in designing a role or a certain type of appearance but from a psychological point of view the concept of quot personality quot is more than that Feist amp Feist 2006 . With the evolution of this term quot persona quot it became the word that represents the actor behind the mask thus quot bringing together internal psycho-moral and psycho-physical features quot Golu 2007 p. 753 . One possibility of explaining the personality concept is that it
