Abstract:

Adopting the personality measuring instrument CSPS (aged 11-18) worked out by Professor Sha Yuying and Professor Zhang Feng from Yunnan Normal University and accorded with the realities of the urban and rural areas and minority areas in China, this thesis is to get to know the development of personalities of the Mosuo middle school students in order to analyze the causes influencing the personality state of Mosuo students and draw a conclusion, and puts forward suggestions from the angle of Mosuo family and cultural environment, through making a research into the personality state of Mosuo students ranging from grade 1 to grade 3 in Yong Ning Middle School in Lijiang of Yunnan province. The result of this study shows that there is obvious difference between Mosuo students in Yong Ning Middle School and local Han students in the field of the aggressive traits in the substructure of the attitude tendency and self-restraint traits in the substructure of will quality. There is no obvious difference among other 22 personality
traits. Moreover, there also is remarkable difference in the comprehensive traits of the substructure of the cognitive style.

Key words: Mosuo students, personality, trait