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dc.contributor.authorChalla, Sowmya
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T18:56:24Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T18:56:24Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/12345
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study is to identify any trends in personality traits of students at a midwestern university along with the influence of gender, choice of STEM or non-STEM academic major, and level of education on personality traits. The chosen mid-western university is Indiana State University (ISU) located in Terre Haute, Indiana. This study investigated the personality traits of student’s through administering Goldberg’s (1999) International Personality Item Pool of the Big Five Broad Domains of Personality. The personality profiles of students at ISU who have taken the questionnare are summarized. The personality profiles of female students were analyzed further with special focus to identify the role of level of education and choice of major among female students. Based on the responses of the study’s subjects, there are significant relationships found between gender and all of the big five personality traits. Level of education, graduate or undergraduate, had significant impact on extraversion, agreeability, concientiousness, and emotional stability. Choice of STEM and non-STEM major impacted emotional stability for subjects in general but its influence is not significant among female subjects. Choice of STEM or non-STEM major had a significant influence on the intelligence/imagination trait for both male and female subjects. Level of education did not have any significant influence on intellegence/imagination. Overall, this study found a few significant relationships between Big-Five personality traits and identified categorizations.en_US
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dc.publisherCunningham Memorial library, Terre Haute,Indiana State Universityen_US
dc.subjectWomen in STEMen_US
dc.subjectBehavioral trendsen_US
dc.subjectSTEM Educationen_US
dc.titleAN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE FIVE-FACTOR PERSONALITY TRAITS MODEL AS PREDICTORS AMONG WOMEN IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS FIELDS AT INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITYen_US
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refterms.dateFOA2021-06-02T13:26:35Z


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