Personality Characteristics of Women Scientists

1 October 1972

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 31 (2) , 391-396
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1972.31.2.391

Abstract

Women biologists and chemists listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women ( N:146) were studied with the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). As a group, women scientists were found to be more serious, radical, confident, dominant, intelligent, and adventurous than women in the general population, and less sociable, group-dependent, and sensitive. Personality profiles on the 16 PF of men and women scientists showed strong similarity ( p < .01).

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