Personality Characteristics of Women Scientists

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold ◽  
Emmy E. Werner
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Strong Similarity ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

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).

Personality Characteristics of Creative Women

1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold ◽  
Emmy E. Werner
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
American Women ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

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.

Personality Characteristics of Women of Distinction

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Bachtold
Keyword(s):  
Professional Role ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Career Women ◽  
Women Psychologists ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

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.

Personality Characteristics of Art Students

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shelton ◽  
Thomas L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

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.

Birth-Order Categories as Predictors of Select Personality Characteristics

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 857-860
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Allman ◽  
William F. White
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Factor V ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Questionnaire Form

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.

Personality Characteristics of Very Desirable and Undesirable Childcare Workers in a Residential Setting

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Residential Setting ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Childcare Workers ◽  
Selection Of

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.

Personality Characteristics of Innovative and Non-Innovative Teachers

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Zimmerman ◽  
John D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

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.

Leadership Profiles as Determined by the 16 PF Scores of Honors College Students

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 615-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Karnes ◽  
Jane C. Chauvin ◽  
Timothy J. Trant
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Honors College ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
College Curriculum ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Honors College Students

79 students enrolled in an Honors College curriculum were administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire to determine their leadership potential scores. Significant differences were found between individuals who actually held leadership positions and those who did not. Other studies using larger samples need to be undertaken to replicate this study.

Motivational Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suki Hinman ◽  
Brian Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interview ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
External Control ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Disadvantaged Women ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

Two hundred and five disadvantaged women completed standardized psychometric inventories (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Motivation Analysis Test, Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, Internal-External Control Scale, Work Attitude Scale) and a structured interview (attitude-value, activity. Jife concerns items). Factor analysis was used to organize these data; correlational analyses indicated that the inventory and interview dimensions tapped essentially independent aspects within the total motivation domain. Compared with inventory norms, these women exhibited torpidity and submissiveness, depressed motivation, poor self-esteem, but positive work attitudes. Differences between dichotomous subgroups defined by six major demographic variables were consistent with previous literature; the most salient pattern of subgroup differences showed that black, less intelligent, and less educated women were less positive toward work and more externally oriented. In sum, these women appeared resigned and lethargic; no causal inference was drawn, but it was cautioned that choice of counseling procedures should be based on a differentiation of diminished from initial lack of motivation.

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