Personality and Values of Women Continuing Their Education After Thirty-Five Years of Age

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This study investigated the hypothesis that mature women returning to college possess unique attributes of personality and have unique occupational values and interests. Late-college women (age 35-50) were compared by multivariate analyses with each of three control groups of women differing with respect to their ages, timing of the educational experience, or extent of educational experience. These mature college women were found to be similar to women their age who had received their college education at the normal time, or who had never gone to college. However, they were less motivated by altruism and philanthropy, less in agreement with the feminist movement, and were more dominant than young women currently in college.

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