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Introduction
In the social sciences there are different researches about the
relationship between personality and career. We can examine the
effect of personality on the success of an individual in at least 5
phases of his/her career: (1) performance in public education (e.g.
LAIDRA ET AL. 2007), (2) choice of profession (e.g. BORGES AND
LOCAL
WORK
MBTI type
INDEX
STDINDEX
Explanation
1 if the student is female, 0 if male.
Age of the student in years. This was calculated as the
difference between the date the questionnaire was filled in
and the year of birth (the assumed birthday was 1st July).
1 if the student is a local resident, 0 otherwise.
1 if the student has work experience (past or present), 0 if not.
Dummy variables indicating the 16 MyersBriggs personality
types. 1 if the student belongs to the given type, 0 otherwise.
Average of a special form of grade index officially termed
stipend index of the previous two academic semesters (1.00
is the minimum, 5.00 is the maximum). The stipend index is
calculated as the product of the credit values of subjects
graded as pass or higher multiplied by their grades divided
by the total number of credits undertaken.
INDEX standardized by majors and university years.
Mean
Std. dev.
t test
-0.8940 7
0.4080
-0.1416
1.011
-0.4850
1.052
0.4360 12 -0.1251
1.143
-0.379
-0.0022
1.085
-0.1000
5 -0.5870 0.6320
-2.077
7 -0.3745
1.097
-1.779
1.185
2.277*
6 -0.1706
1.459
-0.2860
15 -0.2704
1.116
0.7433
1.102
0.4940
Mean
1.270
t test
5 -0.5078
10 0.1452
Mean
t test
INTJ
ENTJ
ENFP
INFJ
ENFJ
ISTJ
ESTJ
ISFJ
ESFJ
M-B
Type
ENTJ
ENFJ
ESTJ
ESFJ
Std. dev.
MyersBriggs
type N
Std. dev.
0.1200 0.7790
0.4655
1.431
1.127
-1.270
1.873* 18 -0.1099
0.3590
1.323
-0.3520
0.0814
1.179
3.121**
0.2716
0.9604
1.356
11 -0.3855 0.9231
-1.385
9 -0.0593 0.6762
-1.305
25 0.2045
1.191
22 0.3069 0.7105
2.026*
2.202**
0.8587
2nd year
6
0.3674
14 0.5030
1.010
0.2525
BUSINESS INFORMATICS
3rd year
0.891
0.7861
Total
8 -0.1318 0.6495
-0.5740
0.0821
0.8280
0.3710
0.7810
0.3678
0.7603
2.419**
20 -0.3020 0.8086
-1.670
17 -0.1160
1.106
0.0517
1.174
0.0572
1.061
-1.206
0.2910
Notes: * significant at level 0.10, ** significant at level 0.05. Mean, standard deviation
and t-statistic are computed for those types only, where N > 4.
3.0712
0.1548
0.0335
0.0294
0.1234
2.3024**
WORK -0.2716
BI major
ENTP
32.555***
1.6737*
-3.0963***
B
2.7034
0.2641
Total
t-test
19.7371***
2.9770***
0.1855
2.2565**
-0.1579
-0.2851
-2.0020**
-3.3234***
0.4498
1.8315*
INTJ
0.3879
2.0067**
ENTJ
0.2900
1.8887*
0.5706
2.8130***
0.2970
2.2403**
0.2772
1.7525*
0.2595
1.8149*
INFJ
0.3469
1.8278*
ENFJ
0.4194
ISTJ
ESTJ
0.2623
1.8089*
2.4249**
0.2181
1.9805**
0.3467
2.7756***
ESFJ
2
0.1046
0.0783
0.1495
R
0.0833
0.0626
0.1185
adjR2
4.9072
4.9718
4.8187
F
216
120
342
N
R2
0.0351
0.0463
0.0334
change
2
adj R
0.0225
0.0388
0.0129
change
5.8800**
1.6150
F change 2.7434**
Notes: Enter method. * Significant at the 0.10 level; ** significant at the 0.05
level; *** significant at the 0.01 level.
Concluding Remarks
The purpose of this study was to contribute to a better
understanding of the relationship between personality and academic
success. Our data was based on our primary questionnaire survey of
408 BAM and BI students of University of Debrecen.
To examine our hypothesis if personality has a significant effect
on the academic performance we used one sample t-test first. We
found that in the BAM major ESFJs, in the BI major ENFJs
outperform significantly the other personality types. To better