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The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Reflective Judgment Among Female Students

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Forty-three female undergraduate and graduate students preparing for careers as educators provided Omnibus Personality Inventory and Reflective Judgment Interview data. The sample included 14 seniors, 15 master's candidates, and 14 doctoral candidates. Each educational level group included participants with a range of intellectual disposition scores as measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory. Scores on six scales of the Omnibus Personality Inventory correlated significantly with Reflective Judgment Interview scores (p < .05): thinking introversion, response bias, altruism, autonomy, complexity, and theoretical orientation. These findings support the conclusion that postformal reasoning, as described in P. M. King and K. S. Kitchener's (1994) reflective judgment model of cognitive development, is related to measurable personality traits.

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Friedman, A.A. The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Reflective Judgment Among Female Students. Journal of Adult Development 11, 297–304 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JADE.0000044533.75067.ee

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