Personality characteristics of nursing school students and graduate nurses

Abstract

The Guilford-Martin battery of personality tests (the GAMIN, the STDCR, and the Personnel Inventory), measuring 13 factors in all, was administered to 182 beginning students from six hospital and collegiate schools of nursing and 78 graduate nurses. Scores of the graduate nurse and nursing student groups were compared with each other and with a norm group made up of 143 women college students. Differences between means and frequencies of extreme scores, suggestive of maladjustment were studied. It was found that no characteristic patterns appeared for the beginning nursing students, although with the graduate nurses a pattern of traits did seem to emerge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)