Abstract
The present study focuses on a descriptive statistical analysis of the relationship between extraversion and introversion tendencies and various factors that can affect extraversion-introversion among engineering students in India. The factors included the native place, age, grades in English, use of social networking websites etc. The results indicated towards some interesting trends like more participants from cities, as compared to metros and villages being extraverts. The younger generation and people from North India were mostly extraverted while aging makes people introverted with time. More of those with better marks in English were extraverts and extraverts were able to speak more number of languages in general as well. A heavy use of Facebook for communication was found to be similar between extraverts and introverts. It was concluded that the study results can be used have better understanding of the relationship between extraversion/introversion and the different variables used in the study.
Highlights
The idea of introversion and extraversion first came from Sigmund Freud
Burruss and Kaenzig (1999) argue that every individual possesses the qualities of both introversion and extraversion and shows both of them in their daily lives but still one of these dominates over the another overall and this can be practically observed by knowing their work preferences and how they react to stress
Life spent in big cities, smaller cities, towns and villages: As can be observed in Table 1, the male students who lived in cities were generally the most extraverted (64.21%) while those living in villages were the least extraverted (50%)
Summary
The idea of introversion and extraversion first came from Sigmund Freud. Carl Jung who went on to develop this concept, tried to relate the different types of behaviors and corresponding personalities of people. The typical extravert needs many friends, is very social, wants to talk with people, enjoys parties and does not prefer to study by himself. He demands excitement, takes risks and generally acts impulsively. He is dynamic with ready answers to questions and likes changes in general Contrary to this a typical introvert is introspective, quite reserved for society, enjoys books rather than meeting people and has friends but not in large number, only close friends. He does not act on the spur of the moment. There has been a discussion from long time about extraversion or introversion being unitary personality dimension or having several factors making it
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