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Personality Characteristics of Australian Occupational Therapy Students
Author(s) -
Clark Michele J.,
White K.D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1983.tb01414.x
Subject(s) - occupational therapy , psychology , personality , big five personality traits , preference , dominance (genetics) , clinical psychology , ideal (ethics) , schedule , social psychology , psychiatry , management , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , economics , gene , microeconomics
The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was administered to 98 occupational therapy students in four different years of training, and to seven staff members who filled in the Schedule “as if they were the ideal occupational therapist”. Derived scores were then compared with previously published work and also with those that defined the ideal occupational therapist. Significant differences between groups were found on 11 of the 15 personality traits. Findings revealed that not only do occupational therapy students differ from other tertiary groups, but on some traits, notably achievement, order, dominance and abasement , such differences relate to the year of training. These latter data suggest that as training proceeds some personality traits change in the direction of those which characterise the ideal occupational therapist.