The Role of Personality in Relation to Gender Differences in School Subject Choices in Pre-University Education.
Boys and girls to some extent differ in personality characteristics while they also prefer different school subjects in secondary education. This study has attempted to unravel the relations among gender, personality, and students' subject choices. The study was based on a sample of 1,740 9th grade...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 67; no. 11-12; pp. 630 - 646 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2012
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