Affiliation:
1. University of Ulster at Coleraine
Abstract
The relationship between anal personality traits and choice of science A-levels was examined in 23 Hindu, 48 Muslim, and 36 Protestant sixth-form students (plus 31 others) to replicate and extend the 1971 findings of Kline. Subjects were administered questionnaire measures of anal personality traits and assigned to either a science or art group depending on A-levels studied. No significant mean differences were found on the obsessional measure between the science and the art students within any of the religious groups, or in the total sample. Kline's findings were not replicated.