The purpose of this investigation was to examine the tenability of three research assumptions. The first assumption is that Person-Thing Orientation and Introversion-Extraversion are synonymous traits. The second assumption is that Science populations, especially Physical Science populations, are less oriented to people and more oriented to things than are Social Science populations. The third assumption is that Science populations, particularly Physical Science populations, are more introverted than are Social Science populations. / These three assumptions were tested using Pure and Applied Science, Health Science, and Social Science-Commerce junior college (CEGEP) students. Measures of Person-Thing Orientation and Introversion-Extraversion were employed. the Person-Thing Orientation measure was constructed and validated by the present author. The Introversion-Extraversion measure came from the Goldberg (1992) 100 Adjective Checklist. / Results indicated that Person-Thing Orientation and Introversion-Extraversion appeared to be independent rather than synonymous traits. Also, Pure and Applied Science, Health Science, and Social Science-Commerce students could not be differentiated on the variable of Person-Thing Orientation. These student groups were differentiated on Introversion-Extraversion, but not in the predicted manner. Methodological limitations and potential issues for future research were subsequently addressed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26326 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Sarris, Eleni |
| Contributors | Rejskind, Gillian (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001431457, proquestno: MM99933, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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