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Perceptions of Engineering, Nursing, and Psychology Students' Personalities
Academic journal article from Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, Vol. 26, No. 4
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Abstract
Student judges (N = 60) completed a personality measure responding in the way they believed male and female students in engineering, nursing, or psychology would complete the inventory. Engineering, nursing, and psychology were considered to be historically male dominated, female dominated, and sex neutral disciplines, respectively. The accuracy of the student judges was assessed by comparing their judgements with those of upper year students (N = 66) in each of the six target conditions. Three personality traits distinguished the three faculties both in self ratings and peer ratings. Engineering students were found to be, in general, high on cognitive structure …
