PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF MALE NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to elucidate the personality traits of male nursing students in comparison to female nursing students and non-nursing male health-care students. A total of two hundred and forty participants consisting of eighty female nursing students, eighty male nursing students and eighty non-nursing students of medicine from three educational institutes of Karachi were recruited through convenient sampling. The short form of Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and a selfdeveloped demographic questionnaire were used to evaluate the personality characteristics of the participants. T-test revealed a significant difference between male nursing students’ mean and medical students’ mean on the personality traits of femininity and masculinity. Moreover, male and female nursing students had similar scores on the trait of femininity. In the case of demographics, majority of the male nurses belonged to the Pathan community, lived in joint family systems, were single and had strong emotional attachment with their mothers