Gender Effects on Assertiveness and Different Personality Traits

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Published: 2022-01-30
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Nirupa Lakshmi

Rupa Lakshmi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.65301/aimt.2022.11.I.II.739
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Gender differences, Assertiveness, Personality, Traits, Characteristics

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Vol. 11 No. I and II (2022)

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The determination of this study is to scrutinise the influence of gender on a variety of personality dimensions, including “decisiveness, responsibility, emotional stability, masculinity, sociability, heterosexuality, egostrength, curiosity, dominance, and assertiveness”. On the numerous personality dimensions, it was hypothesized that male and female student scores would not differ significantly. The sample included 150 male and 100 female students randomly selected from Patna, Bihar, colleges. The Differential Personality Scale (Sinha & Singh, 1979) and the Assertiveness Scale (Lakshmi, 1993) were employed for this purpose. According to the findings, male and female students scored substantially differently on the decisiveness, sociability, heterosexuality, and assertiveness personality dimensions. However, there were no significant differences in the personality dimensions of responsibility, emotional stability, masculinity, ego-strength, curiosity, and dominance

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Author Biographies

Nirupa Lakshmi

Professor and Head of the Department of Management Studies, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

Rupa Lakshmi

Professor and Head of the Department- Psychology

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