The Y-G Personality Inventory, the taste examination and the food preference test were given to seventy 10- to 12-year-old girls. The ratio of correct answers on sweetness, sourness, saltiness and bitter taste was sought among five groups based on the Y-G Personality Inventory.
As a result, the low ratio of accuracy on detecting sourness and bitter taste was seen among the emotionally unstable group. And also, the group of emotionally stable and aggressive girls showed. superiority on bitter taste at the 5 % level of significance in comparison with the group of emotionally unstable and passive ones.
The characteristic factors of the significant difference between the group which detected the bitter taste correctly on the taste examination and the others which did not, were inferiority feelings, social extraversion, activeness and domination.
According to the result of the food preference test, there was the tendency that the group who gave correct answers on sourness showed higher preference over fruits and sweets than those who did not, and the group who detected correctly on bitter taste liked more meats, vegetables, and salty and sour foods than those who made incorrect answers.
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