Personality features associated with junior and senior recreation majors at selected private colleges in the southeastern United States

The purposes of this study were to identify personality features of recreation majors at selected private colleges in the southeastern United States and to contrast the current results with similar research conducted between 1966 and 1975. The personality assessment instruments used were Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) and the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperance Survey (GZTS). The sample was comprised of one hundred fifty-eight junior and senior recreation majors. The response rate was 81 percent on the 16 PF and 71 percent on the GZTS. Descriptive statistics, multivariate tests of significance and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data from each inventory with regards to possible differences in groups, majors, institutions, gender and class status