Big-5 traits

Our study: E: -.12, p = .39 N: -.11, p = .47 A: -.42, p < .01 C: -.23, p = .12 O: .06, p = .71

In past studies, Extroversion, Oppenness, and Conscientiousness have all proven to have minimal gender differences. Our study also shows minimal differences for Oppenness and Extraversion; there are slightly higher differences for Conscientiousness, however, but this is still in the expected direction (with females scoring slightly higher). Females scored higher on Neuroticism, as expected, even though the p value is too high to make any reliable inferences from this data. Additionally, the factor which has most reliably been scored higher for females in past research (Agreeableness) not only has the highest correlation of r = -.42, but also has a p < .01, making it both a noteworthy and significant gender difference. The fact that these results match up more or less with previous research (especially the Agreeableness component) helps to raise the validity of our questionnaire. However, I'm not quite sure what type of validity it is - convergent?

• edit: I added this part to the validity section, feel free to let me know or edit if you don't agree with it! I also took out part of the intro that was a reiteration of stuff said a bit later on in the section.