Page No.303-308
Vijaya Lakshmi Nagarjuna and Sireesha Mamidenna
ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
The personality profiles of 200 students pursuing MBA course have been
compared in the present study. Cattell’s 16 PF Questionnaire was used to
study the personality differences among students with respect to their academic
background and gender. The hypotheses examined were: Male students are
not significantly different from female students and students with B.Com degree
are not significantly different from those with an engineering degree. Results
showed that there were no significant differences among students in the
personality profiles based on academic background except for measures of
sensitivity and perfectionism. Another findings also indicated that there were
significant gender based differences in some measures of personality like warmth,
sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness and openness to change. The implications
of these findings are discussed for educationists and subject experts with respect
to course content, delivery and counseling of students.