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Personality Patterns of Iranian Boys and Girls on Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Test
Author(s) -
MEHRYAR A. H.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1972.tb00811.x
Subject(s) - personality , test (biology) , persian , psychology , factor (programming language) , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , theology , biology , ecology , computer science , programming language , philosophy
A Persian translation of Cattell's 16 Personality Factor test (Form A) was given to a group of 598 Iranian secondary‐school students, 259 girls and 339 boys, aged between 17 and 19. The results were analysed with respect to sex and academic specialization and compared with American norms. Iranian boys were found to score higher than Iranian girls on factors C, E, H and L, but lower than them on factors A, I, M, O and Q 4 . Boys following the mathematics or physical science branches differed from those enrolled in the literature or humanities branch on factors A, C, G, I, L, M, N, O and Q 4 ; those following natural science (biology) differed from the literary group on factors C, I, M, N, O and Q 4 . The two scientific branches were significantly different only on factors G, I and L. For the girls, significant differences were observed only on the A and I factors. On the whole, the picture presented by the Iranian mathematics and natural science groups is very similar to that of the physical scientist as revealed by Western studies. Iranian boys differ from their American counterparts on factors G, L, N, Q 3 , E, F, Q 2 and Q 4 . Similarly, Iranian girls emerge as different from American girls on factors A, F, G, H, I, L, N, O, Q 3 and Q 4 . The findings are discussed in the light of other evidence regarding Iranian culture and the performance on the 16 PF test in other cultural settings.