Cechy osobowości uczniów szkół muzycznych a poziom otrzymywanego wsparcia społecznego

Article focuses on issues related to the selected dimensions of the psychosocial functioning of music school students. Directly concerns the relation between personality traits of musically talented youth and perceived level of receiving social support. The research presented in this article was conducted among students of Polish music schools in different regions of the country. As part of this study used authoring tool for (1) measuring social support for music school students, the content of which specific questions adapted to the specific school of music and (2) Paul Costa and Robert McCrae Personality Inventory NEO-FFI. The results of the research allowed to indicate the strength of the association between the level of personality traits of music school students and the types of social support (emotional support, instrumental, informational and evaluative) received from various social groups (parents, teacher of the main subject, other teachers, colleagues from the music school, colleagues outside music school). In the dimension of social support studies were innovative and in terms of personality traits allowed polemics to previous studies carried out in the population of Polish students of music schools and abroad research.