Date of Award
6-1-1969
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Counseling Psychology & Community Services
Abstract
Problem: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the differences between a group of community college students in an Adjustment Skills course and a control group on selected personality and non-academic characteristics.
Procedure: The subjects in this study consisted of 56 freshmen males and 33 freshmen females enrolled at Wenatchee Valley College during the 1967 Fall Quarter who received a standard score less than 42 on the English Composite sub-test of the Washington Pre-College Test, or achieved a high school grade point average in English of less than 2,5. The experimental group consisted of 22 males and 17 females, while the control group consisted of 34 males and 16 females.
Three, instruments, the California Psychological Inventory, the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, and the Heineman Forced- Choice Anxiety Scale constituted the main sources of data for this study. An Achievement Inventory, a specially constructed Biographical Characteristics Questionnaire, and existing college records provided additional data.
The statistical techniques employed in this study included analysis of variance and chi square, The .05 level was employed as the critical level for determining the significance of the obtained differences.
Findings: 1. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the sociability variable.
2. Experimental group females scored significantly higher than experimental group males on the self-acceptance variable. Control group males scored significantly higher than control group females on the self-acceptance variable.
3. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the responsibility variable.
4. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the self-control variable.
5. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the good impression variable. The control group scored significantly higher than the experimental group on the variable, good impression.
6. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the femininity variable. The experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on the variable, femininity.
7. Experimental and control group males scored significantly higher than experimental and control group females on theoretical, economic, and political traits.
8. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on aesthetic, social, and religious traits.
9. Experimental and control group females scored significantly higher than experimental and control group males on the anxiety variable.
10. The experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on the Achievement Inventory variable.
Conclusions: Females of each group were significantly higher than the two male groups on most of the variables where measurable differences were noted. Thus, it can be concluded that a sex difference was the major differentiating factor in the study and not treatment differences.
Recommended Citation
Curtis, Eugene L., "A Study of Differences Between a Group of Community College Students in an Adjustment Skills Course and a Control Group on Selected Personality and Non-Academic Characteristics" (1969). Theses and Dissertations. 3740.
https://commons.und.edu/theses/3740