An Exploration of Individual Personality Types in Software Development

A winning personality is the physical attribute of a person and is considered as his or her success in personal, academic, and professional careers. However, in the ESL context, most engineering students seem to be unaware of the need for and importance of an appealing personality for achieving success in both personal and professional careers. Although students are given a short-term training in soft-skills by their respective college or institute, engineering students seem to lack aspects of a pleasing personality which helps them in job placements and later in the work environment. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to understand and build engineering students’ personality traits such as enthusiasm, dependability, and teamwork for a successful career. For this purpose, to understand the students’ personality types, 25 engineering students were administered a pre-test based on Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality. Students were helped in building personality through the soft-skills training. The data was analyzed and interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results indicated that having a pleasing personality and exhibiting soft-skills enables in building students’ individual personality for employment readiness. Implications were offered to students, placement trainers, and teachers. It is concluded that having a charming personality will support students in landing their desired jobs.

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GUI vs CUI: Individual personality types and the experience of learning to use library databases

The Australian Library Journal ◽

10.1080/00049670.1994.10755687 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 183-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Margaret Gaff

Keyword(s):

Personality Types ◽

Individual Personality

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Typeness of personality profiles: a continuous person‐centred approach to personality data

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.575 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 83-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Jens B. Asendorpf

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Empirical Bayes ◽

Personality Types ◽

Personality Profiles ◽

Multiple Traits ◽

Hierarchical Linear Modelling ◽

Individual Personality ◽

Linear Modelling ◽

The Mean ◽

The Individual

I propose a new method of analysing personality profiles based on multiple traits. Personality profiles are regressed within individuals on prototypic profiles for personality types. To increase reliability, empirical Bayes estimates as obtained from hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) are used. The regression coefficients are interpreted as typeness, the extent to which the individual personality profile deviates from the mean profile in the sample consistent with the deviations of the personality types. These continuous parameters of typeness are subsequently used in between‐person analyses. This method was applied to two studies of Big Five profiles that were related to prototypic profiles for overcontrollers and undercontrollers. The typeness parameters, if reliable, showed a longitudinal stability and an external validity similar to the Big Five scales. The merits and limits of the proposed approach for the description of, and prediction from, personality are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Correlation between Personality Types and Color Shade Preference

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0104.009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Divya Ghorawat ◽

Ravina Madan

Keyword(s):

Standard Deviation ◽

Preference Test ◽

Personality Types ◽

Personality Test ◽

Age Group ◽

Colour Preference ◽

Individual Personality ◽

The Mean ◽

The Difference ◽

Selection Of

The main aim of this study was to find out whether the color shade preferences of individuals, grouped according to their personality types are alike or not. The researchers also tried to study the difference in color shade preferences based on gender differences. The objective was to understand whether the color shade preferences of individuals are affected by their individual personality types or not and whether gender plays any role in selection of color shades of individuals. The study sample consisted of a total of 80 subjects, randomly selected from within the age group of 18-25. An attempt was made to maintain a balance between two genders and across the ages. The research instruments used were Eysenck’s Personality Test (to measure the personality types) and a separate Colour Bar- Colour Preference Test was designed to serve the purpose of this study. The subjects were made to fill both the questionnaires and then the items were scored and results were analyzed. Positive scoring was done for Eysenck’s personality questionnaire and negative scoring was used to score the Colour Bar-Colour Preference Test. The data collected was divided into: Introverts (female, male) and Extroverts (female, male). From the data collected the mean, standard deviation and correlation between extraversion scores and the most preferred colour scores, for all the four groups. The mean, standard deviation, and correlation for the four groups was found to be 436.4 (IF), 529.2 (IM), 504 (EF), 453.4 (EM); 5.47 (IF), 6.52 (IM), 5.48 (EF), 6.93(EM); -0.3 (IF), -0.1 (IM), 0.1 (EF) and 0.5 (EM) respectively. From this the conclusion was drawn that there was no significant correlation found between the personality types and colour shade preferences of the subjects except in the case of extroverted males. Recommendations: Increase the sample size as that proved to be a limitation to this study. A study across ages is also possible and might give different results.

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