A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERSONALITY, INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL CLASS IN A TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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Summary. 607 freshmen in the 1966 intake at the University of Bradford completed a personality inventory and the Nufferno intelligence test. The mean extraversion score was lower than those obtained from traditional university samples, but higher than the normal population. Undergraduates at Bradford were more neurotic than the normal population and the arts specialists, particularly the women, were more neurotic than the men scientists. Women science specialists were substantially more intelligent and extraverted than any other group in the sample. Appreciably higher intelligence scores were obtained by science and technology students than by arts and social sciences, but within these subject areas there were no social class differences. In keeping with other studies in technological institutions, proportionally more students were recruited from working class homes than is experienced by established universities.

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