{"title":"Big-Five Personality Factors and Gender Differences in Egyptian College Students","authors":"A. Abdel-Khalek","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present study was to estimate gender differences among a sample of Egyptian college students (N = 2,188, age 20.3 ± 2.5 years). They responded to the Arabic Big-Five Personality Inventory (ABFPI). This inventory has acceptability to high internal consistency, temporal stability, and criterion-related validity. Based on the t test, all gender differences were statistically significant. Based on effect size (d), gender differences were significant in three out of the five factors as follows: Men obtained significantly higher mean total scores than women on Extraversion and Openness, whereas women had a significantly higher mean total score on Neuroticism than did their male peers. However, all the d values were small. It was concluded that gender differences in personality factors are real but small.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"478-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mankind Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The objective of the present study was to estimate gender differences among a sample of Egyptian college students (N = 2,188, age 20.3 ± 2.5 years). They responded to the Arabic Big-Five Personality Inventory (ABFPI). This inventory has acceptability to high internal consistency, temporal stability, and criterion-related validity. Based on the t test, all gender differences were statistically significant. Based on effect size (d), gender differences were significant in three out of the five factors as follows: Men obtained significantly higher mean total scores than women on Extraversion and Openness, whereas women had a significantly higher mean total score on Neuroticism than did their male peers. However, all the d values were small. It was concluded that gender differences in personality factors are real but small.
期刊介绍:
The Mankind Quarterly was founded as a quarterly journal of anthropology, in the broadest sense of "the science of man," in 1961. This was a time when the "study of man" had already diversified into physical anthropology, ethnography, quantitative cross-cultural research, archaeology and other subspecialties. Psychological and linguistic approaches were explored but the genetic study of population structure and population history was still in its infancy.