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SUCCESS AND FAILURE AMONG SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND HEALTH SCIENTISTS AT A TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Author(s) -
SMITHERS A. G.,
BATCOCK ANGELA
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1970.tb02114.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , psychology , social class , social psychology , personality , big five personality traits , political science , law
S ummary . 186 students, 93 per cent of one intake of social and health scientists into the University of Bradford, were classified according to degree result and compared on a number of measures. Performance was found to be positively related to A‐level results and inversely to social class background, students from working‐class backgrounds being more likely to obtain good degrees. Introversion and open‐mindedness appeared to be an advantage in the social sciences, neuroticism in the health sciences. In both fields, the successful tended to score higher on the Nufferno intelligence test. Success in the professionally oriented health sciences was related to strength of occupational motivation. Successful and unsuccessful students differed only slightly in the importance attached to academic goals, and did not differ in reported worries.