Personality Characteristics of Creative Women

1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold ◽  
Emmy E. Werner

Women authors who were listed in Who's Who in America, and women artists in Who's Who in American Women responded to the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. Both groups were found to be more aloof, intelligent, emotional, aggressive, adventurous, imaginative, radical, and self-sufficient, and less group-dependent and controlled than women in the general population. Although the women artists did not score beyond the average on sensitivity and self-control, the authors were more sensitive and less controlled than women in general.

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold ◽  
Emmy E. Werner

Women biologists and chemists listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women ( N:146) were studied with the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). As a group, women scientists were found to be more serious, radical, confident, dominant, intelligent, and adventurous than women in the general population, and less sociable, group-dependent, and sensitive. Personality profiles on the 16 PF of men and women scientists showed strong similarity ( p < .01).


1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1299-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Schuerger ◽  
T. M. Sfiligoj

Global Factor scores from Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) were correlated with Holland codes using mean 16PF profiles from 69 occupational groups as data. Unlike prior studies, this study features occupational groups as the unit of analysis. Two analyses were done to test expectations, (a) 16PF scores would significantly discriminate among Holland types and (b) 16PF mean scores for each type would differ from the population mean in a direction consistent with prior research. Results met expectations on each analysis. Findings for two of the Global Factors (Anxiety and Self-control) warranted special comment. Interpretations were offered and implications discussed.


1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold

Eight hundred and sixty-three women psychologists, scientists, artists and writers, and politicians were compared on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire through a multiple discriminant analysis. The four groups were set apart by personality characteristics adaptive to their professional role expectations. Politicians were more sociable, conscientious, self-controlled, and group-dependent; artists and writers were more affected by their feelings, spontaneous and natural, and inclined to follow their own urges; scientists were the more reserved, serious, and tough-minded; and psychologists were more flexible, liberal, and accepting. When contrasted with women in the general population, the four groups of career women were all found to be brighter, more assertive, more adventurous, and less conservative.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shelton ◽  
Thomas L. Harris

Undergraduate art students were administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). Significant personality differences were found on the basis of sex and degree sought. Art students scored more sensitive, self-sufficient, imaginative, liberal, and forthright when compared with non-art college students.


1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 857-860
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Allman ◽  
William F. White

The present study was designed to examine the relationships between selected birth-order-rank categories and personality behavior as measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Form A (16 PF). Data from 87 female Ss indicated significant differences among several of the birth-order groups on two of the second-order factors. Significant differences appeared between First Born Only and Second Born and Youngest as well as between First Born Only and Third Born Ss on Factor V, and between First Born Only and Second Born with Younger Siblings on Factor VI.


1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lee

Scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) were different for childcare employees designated by their supervisors most and least desirable. This led to a rationale, specific to this setting, which potentially could augment procedures for selection of employees. The methods and cautionary concerns are proposed to other agencies.


1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Zimmerman ◽  
John D. Williams

88 teachers were selected from 24 North Dakota secondary schools and were classified as either innovators or non-innovators on the basis of a 3-item questionnaire filled out by their colleagues at the respective schools. The 16 PF (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire) was administered to both groups. Innovators were significantly more imaginative, more assertive, more venturesome, and less tense than the non-innovators.


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