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Relationship between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Gregorc Style Delineator
P H Harasym1, E J Leong, B B Juschka
1Office of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. harasym@acs.ucalgary.ca
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|June 1, 1996
Summary
This study found learning styles from the Gregorc Style Delineator correlate with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator traits in nursing students. However, neither instrument predicted academic achievement in anatomy and physiology.
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Nursing Education
Background:
- Understanding student learning styles is crucial for effective teaching.
- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Gregorc Style Delineator (GSD) are commonly used psychometric tools to assess personality and learning preferences.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine the relationship between learning styles identified by the GSD and personality traits measured by the MBTI.
- To determine if these psychometric instruments correlate with academic achievement in first-year nursing students.
Main Methods:
- Administered the MBTI and GSD to 259 first-year nursing students in an anatomy and physiology course.
- Utilized principal component factor analysis with varimax rotation on scores from both instruments and academic achievement data (exam scores, GPA).
Main Results:
- Specific GSD learning styles (Concrete Sequential, Concrete Random, Abstract Sequential, Abstract Random) showed correlations with MBTI traits (Sensing, Judging, Intuition, Perceiving, Thinking, Feeling).
- Factor analysis revealed that MBTI's Judging vs. Perceiving traits collapsed into the Sensing vs. Intuition scale, and GSD scales differed from Gregorc's original proposal.
- No significant relationship was found between MBTI traits or GSD learning styles and students' examination scores or overall grade point average.
Conclusions:
- While MBTI and GSD measure related constructs, they do not predict academic success in introductory human anatomy and physiology for nursing students.
- The study suggests a potential restructuring of the GSD scales based on empirical findings.