Comparison of the Personality Traits of Female Teacher Education and Physical Education Students

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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality profiles of women training to be classroom teachers and those training to be physical educators. Cattell's 16PF (form C), the 1PAT Anxiety Scale, the EPPS, and the CP1 were administered to female teacher-education students (N=128) and female physical education students (N=123) enrolled in a 4-yr program, leading to a B.Ed. degree, in a Canadian University. Multiple-discriminant analysis between groups indicated significant differences in personality. Separate personality components revealed the student classroom teachers to be high on order, affiliation, and patience, and the student physical education teachers to be high on warm-heartedness, mental capacity, enthusiasm, perseverance, venture-someness, imagination, shrewdness, self-sufficiency, self-image, exhibitionism, dominance, and social presence.