Personality Characteristics of Female Psychology, Science and Art Majors

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Barton ◽  
H. Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Function Analysis ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Science Major

Using Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Test the personality profiles of psychology, art, and science majors at Wellesley College were compared among themselves and with an older group of successful female psychologists. A discriminant function analysis yielded significant similarities and differences between the psychology, art, and science major groups.

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 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.

Relationship between Personality Traits and Vocational Choice

2009 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 633-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Garcia-Sedeñto ◽  
Jose I. Navarro ◽  
Inmaculada Menacho
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
First Order ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between occupational preferences and personality traits was examined. A randomly chosen sample of 735 students (age range = 17 to 23 years; 50.5% male) in their last year of high school participated in this study. Participants completed Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor–5 Questionnaire (16PF–5 Questionnaire) and the Kuder–C Professional Tendencies Questionnaire. Initial hierarchical cluster analysis categorized the participants into two groups by Kuder–C vocational factors: one showed a predilection for scientific or technological careers and the other a bias toward the humanities and social sciences. Based on these groupings, differences in 16PF–5 personality traits were analyzed and differences associated with three first-order personality traits (warmth, dominance, and sensitivity), three second-order factors (extraversion, control, and independence), and some areas of professional interest (mechanical, arithmetical, artistic, persuasive, and welfare) were identified. The data indicated that there was congruency between personality profiles and vocational interests.

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 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.

Content Similarities and Differences in Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Eight State Questionnaire, and Motivation Analysis Test

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Personality Factor ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Normal Personality ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Psychometric Measurement ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The multivariate psychometric measurement of normal personality traits, transitory emotional states, and dynamic motivational factors has been made possible through the factor analytically validated instruments devised by Cattell and his associates. Previous research by Boyle, et al. has demonstrated that in accord with theory, all three instruments are measuring essentially separate psychological domains. While this quantitative evidence suggested that the multivariate instruments exhibit little measurement overlap with each other, nevertheless, it was not possible to ascertain the content similarities and differences from the canonical-redundancy analyses reported. Hence, the present study examines these qualitative characteristics in terms of the subscale data across each pair of instruments in turn. Results suggest that the slight measurement redundancy across instruments is due predominantly to the influence of a few subscales only.

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