Personality Characteristics of Selected Groups of Women Educators

Abstract

Abstract Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Inventory and a questionnaire were obtained from 236 women physical educators who were members of the Central Association of Physical Education for College Women and 180 women educators from other departments at the same institutions represented by the physical education group. Multiple discriminant analysis revealed women educators relative to women physical educators differed significantly on Q2+ (more self-sufficient), A+ (more outgoing), M+ (more imaginative), B+ (more intelligent), C— (less emotionally stable), and E— (less dominant), while women noncoaches differed from women coaches on M+ (more imaginative), F— (less enthusiastic), O— (more confident), H+ (more venturesome), A+ (more outgoing), and N+ (more shrewd). Questionnaire information indicated differences between the women educators and physical educators in educational background, age, marital status, and participation in all forms of activity at the high school and college level. The noncoaches differed from the coaches in the type of school at which they were employed, size of school at which employed, job responsibilities, academic rank, educational background, age, number of years teaching at the college level, participation in out-of-school activities as high school students, intercollegiate competition, availability of sports programs, and attitude toward competition for women.