A personality study of professional and student actors

Abstract

Guilford's Inventory of Factors STDCR and the Guilford-Martin Personnel Inventory were administered to 3 groups: (1) 74 professional actors, (2) 30 students of speech and drama who had appeared in university productions, and (3) 100 students of speech and drama who had not appeared. Student actors who had appeared showed scores significantly different from the professionals in 2 of 8 personality areas. The student actors who did not appear showed 4 areas to be significantly different, but no significant differences appeared when the 2 groups of students were compared. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)