Abstract
Differences on personality between students of economics, medicine and verbal communication should be explored by means of the Temperament and Character Inventory. Students of economics are mainly characterized by lower harm avoidance and lower reward dependence and higher self directedness than medical students and students of verbal communication. Students of all groups seem to overestimate their self-directedness with economical students showing the most pronounced tendency of overrating, whereas medical students tend to overrate their cooperativeness more than the students from the other groups. The obvious disturbed self-evaluation corresponds to the students’ professional orientation. The students can be characterized by specific and varying types and impact of social desirability depending on their professional career.
Highlights
The personality of university students has been the subject of various investigations, which focused mainly on relationships between personality characteristics and academic performance
Students with SJ temperaments, i.e. who trust data and information perceived thru the five senses, who focus on details and specifics, work sequentially and prefer experience-guided learning, and who have a practical and present orientation combined with goal orientation and structured goal planning, performed significantly better than those of a SP temperament, i.e. who trust data and information from the five senses but combined with rather spontaneous and flexible preferences and a tendency to avoid quick decisions
About one sixth of the medical and one seventh of the economics students overrate their persistence, one tenth of the medical students overrate their cooperative abilities, one tenth of the students of verbal communication overrate their dependency on rewards and one fifth of the students of economics underrate their harm avoidance
Summary
The personality of university students has been the subject of various investigations, which focused mainly on relationships between personality characteristics and academic performance. E.g., studies in students of economics showed that those who were more introvert according to the broad MyersBriggs categories and who found their source of energy in the inner life of ideas or concepts, performed better than extroverts in principles of economics. This tendency seemed to persist throughout the university training (Ziegert, 2000; Borg & Stranahan, 2002a, 2002b). The two dimensions on which, among others, medical students and students of economics differed from students of mainly applied sciences (engineering) refer to interpersonal relationships such as extraversion (sociable and extrovert vs. shy and introvert) indicating the frequency of relationships and agreeableness (warm and friendly vs. cold and aloof) indicating the quality of relationships
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