The main purpose of the present investigation was to compare the personality traits of cegep students enrolled in arts, sciences, and social sciences. In addition, the influence of gender on personality was examined, as well as its interaction with academic specialization. Finally, exploratory research was conducted to study the influence of selected socio-demographic variables on personality configuration. / Participants were asked to complete a socio-demographic questionnaire as well as the French research translation of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), which measures the five basic dimensions of personality. Thus, another purpose of this study was to provide validational information for the latter instrument. / Results indicated that arts students score significantly lower on Extraversion than science and social science students. Furthermore, females were shown to score significantly higher than males on measures of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiouness. In addition, the interaction of program specialization and gender was shown to be significant on the Openness to experience scale. Exploratory research indicated that students whose parents have a higher occupational level scored significantly higher than other students on measures of Openness to experience. Finally, the internal consistency of each scale and correlations between the scales of the instrument were calculated. The implications of our results were subsequently discussed, as well as potential issues for future research.

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35-53, 86-110 in original are omitted/mispaginated / In this thesis, the relationship between various group memberships of university students and their participation in certain campus-wide activities is studied. The question asked is: What are the differences in campus political participation and donation of blood in the Blood Drive of isolates and of students with low or high degrees of social participation in campus life. [...]

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This study surveyed the attitudes of 59 Secondary V students of Greek origin who were studying in the French language. Their school, formerly an English Protestant High School, is located in the Province of Quebec. The school now contains groups of students in separate English-medium and French-medium programmes because language laws require more recent immigrants to be taught in French. The study showed that most of the students in the French programme are more proficient in English than in French, that their attitudes toward the French language are more instrumental or pragmatic than affective or integerative. These factors may be related to the fact that students in the French programme had lower levels of academic achievement.

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