Nursing Students: Personality Dimensions and Attitudes toward Women

Abstract

100 female nursing students completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Attitudes Toward Women Scale. A pattern of high Lie and low Psychoticism scores was found. Nursing students were more conservative than female undergraduates and more liberal than male undergraduates as indicated by the Attitudes Toward Women Scale. Scores on the four scales in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were independent of scores on the Attitudes Toward Women Scale.