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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26700 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Paquet-Gagnon, Anabel. |
| 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: 001572319, proquestno: MQ29506, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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