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| Published: July 20, 2018
A Study on Association of Personality Traits with Graduation Stream and Specialization Choice of Management Students
Assistant Professor, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai, India
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Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Nagpur, India
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DIP: 18.01.006/20180603
DOI: 10.25215/0603.006
ABSTRACT
This study was designed study to determine whether there is an association between personality traits and graduation stream of MBA students. This study also tested the association of personality traits with chosen specialization. The big five personality traits are measured for a sample of 706 management students through a survey developed from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). The chi-square results indicated association of extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness with personality traits. Majority of high scorers came from engineering background whereas majority of low scorers came from commerce background. Maximum trait differences were observed in engineering students. Specialization choice was found to be independent of personality.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
2018 © Khan, D. & Dhabe, S
Received: March 31, 2018; Revision Received: July 02, 2018; Accepted: July 20, 2018
Dur Khan @ durkhan@jbims.edu
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.006/20180603
10.25215/0603.006
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Published in Volume 06, Issue 3, July-September, 2018