IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONALITY TYPES OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS AND FACULTY BASED ON THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR.
Contributors: Pepperdine University.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Community College.; Psychology, Personality.
Description: The purpose of this research was to identify the personality types and learning styles of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) students and teaching styles of faculty to determine the level of matching between the two groups. The relationship between personality types and select variables was also explored.

This was a non experimental and descriptive study. A convenience sample of 128 ADN students and 13 faculty members at Los Angeles Pierce College was utilized; all participants were volunteers. The main instrument was form G of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a self-report questionnaire. The Student Learning Preferences and the Faculty Instructional Preferences questionnaires were created for this study to assess the level of matching; a 43% level of matching was found. The criteria for matching were: first to determine if each group chose the same mode in an item, second, that there would be no more than 15% difference on an item between the two groups, and third, that the order of ranking an item would be the same.

Analysis of data revealed that the student sample showed almost equal percentages on the Extrovert-Introvert and Thinking-Feeling scales. On the Sensing-Intuitive scale, there was 71% Sensing and 28% Intuitive. The Judgment-Perceiving scale were 71% Judging and 28% Perceiving. The faculty sample showed equal percentages on the Extrovert-Introvert scale. The Thinking-Feeling scale showed 61% Thinking and 38% Feeling. On the Sensing-Intuitive scale, there was 69% Intuitive and 30% Sensing. On the Judging-Perceiving scale, there was 71% Judging and 23% Perceiving.

When comparing the two groups, there was a similar pattern on the Extrovert-Introvert and Judging-Perceiving scales. On the Thinking-Feeling scale, the majority of faculty were Thinking. The groups showed an opposite pattern on the Sensing-Intuitive scale.

Recommendations for further study were to identify personality types in the other nursing programs with possible mixed gender faculties, to conduct studies to identify personality types of male nursing students and to continue exploring the relationship of personality types and ethnicity in students.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02, Section: A, page: 0566.

Thesis (ED.D.)--PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, 1995.

School code: 6009.