This study purports to investigate gender-related difference in personality traits of middle school
students, then the relationship between 16-PF and DAP tests. Subjects are 410 the second graders of Middle School students. Measuring tools are multi-factor personality test and draw-a-person test.
Ohdomo's criteria of analysis is adopted as the rating scale for DAP test.
The data were analyzed with average, standard deviation, t-test, Pearson correlation analysis. Results are as follows. First, female students marked higher than male students in such personality traits as warmth, strength, passion, superego, imagination, boldness, sensitiveness, and self-control to exhibit a significant difference; while male students marked higher in guilt-proneness. Second, according to Ohodomo's analytic criteria for DAP, male students marked higher on the factors of S, C, and F, whereas female students marked higher on M, Sch, and Y personality factors. Third, as to the relationship between 16 PF personality traits and DAP personality factors, male students displayed positive correlation on the pairs of warmth with C factor, strength with S factor, sensitiveness with Sch and N factors, whereas they exhibited negative correlation on the pairs of passion with Sch and Y factors, shrewdness with M factor, radicalism with S factor, and anxiety with S factor. As for female students, positive correlation arose on the pairs of warmth with PS factor, superego with Sch factor, self-control with Sch factor, while negative correlation was presented on the pairs of passion with M factor and radicalism with F factor.
Key Word : 16-PF(Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire), Personality Traits, DAP(Draw A
Person), Personality Factor