To compare the personality characteristics between male teacher trainees of physical education and education

Abstract

The purpose of the study was “To Compare the Personality Characteristics between Male Teacher Trainees of Physical Education and Education” with the objective to compare the personality traits among male teacher trainees of physical education and personality traits among male teacher trainees of education. For the purpose of this study 120 subjects was selected randomly. These selected subjects was 60 teacher trainees of physical education and 60 from education. Further, both categories consist of 30 male trainees of physical education and 30 male trainees of education from University of Delhi and Banaras Hindu University. The data were collected from the selected subjects after administration of questionnaire (Big five inventory) comparing personality characteristics namely openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. After the study the tester found that the mean, standard deviation and t-values of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness, Neuroticism, Openness and Overall Personality of male teacher trainees of Physical Education and Education. The mean ± standard Deviation values of male teacher trainees of physical education for Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness, Neuroticism, Openness and overall personality were 26.33 ± 3.77, 32.20 ± 4.74, 32.71 ± 5.74, 22.01 ± 4.25, 35.76 ± 6.09 and 149.01 ± 24.59 respectively. The mean ± standard Deviation values of male teacher trainees of education for Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness, Neuroticism, Openness and overall personality were 26.80 ± 4.50, 32.85 ± 4.79, 33.60 ± 5.98, 20.60 ± 5.28, 35.81 ± 5.44 and 149.66 ± 25.99 respectively. The t-values of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, Neuroticism and Overall personality for Male Teacher Trainees were 0.610, -0.746, -0.825, -0.047, 1.615 and -0.241 respectively which were insignificant at 0.05 level. The result we found that there was significant difference between male Physical Education and male Education teacher trainees for Neuroticism. Male Physical Education teacher trainees have higher mean value in comparison of male Education teacher trainees. There was insignificant difference between male Physical Education and male Education teacher trainees for Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness, Openness and Overall Personality.