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1123.5 A study of life situation antecedence, personality and motivational patterns of small
scale women entrepreneurs, T.J. Kamalanabhan 1 , V. Vijaya 2 , 1 Indian Institute of Technology,
India; 2 Manipal Institute of Management, India
This research study focussed on entrepreneurial intention of small scale women entrepreneurs in
manufacturing, trading and service sectors. The variables studied were life situation antecedence,
personality, entrepreneurial motivation, certain demographic variables and business-related
variables. Fifteen personality bipolar factors, five dimensions in the life situation antecedence
scale and the five factors of the entrepreneurial motivation scale were the variables considered for
psychological analysis. Both univariate and multivariate analysis was done to process the data.
The results reveal that there are significant contributions of life situation antecedence, personality
and certain demographic variables in contributing to the entrepreneurial intention in small scale
women entrepreneurs. Personality differences have also been observed.
1124 ORAL
Personallity and individual differences
Chair: Noga Sverdlik, Israel
1124.1 Gender equity among engineers: A challenge for the future, Glennelle Halpin, Gerald
Halpin, Larry D. Benefield, Auburn University, USA
Relative to the number of men who are scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, there are very
few women. If we are to have the technical workforce needed in the future, it is imperative that
this gender gap be reduced. With the focus being on initial professional preparation, factors related
to success or lack thereof were identified for students (N > 3,500) matriculating as pre-engineers
at a large university in the United States over the last decade. These factors were compared and
contrasted for women and for men, thereby enhancing the research basis for future policies and
programs aimed toward gender
1124.2 Sex differenced in cognitive abilities: Suport for the developmental-differentiation
approach, Santha Kumari Kunjayi, George Kurian, School of Management & Social Sciences,
Thapar Institute of ENGG. & Technology, India
An attempt was made to explicate gender differences in mathematical and spatial tasks across
distinct developmental stages. Findings suggest that pre-pubertal girls have an edge over
pre-pubertal boys on geometric tasks, but no difference between the sexes in performance on
arithmatic tasks. Post-pubertal boys scored higher than post-pubertal girls on geometric tasks with
no difference on arithmetic tasks between them. A comparison of post-pubertal girls and boys with
a sample of post-menopausal women on their performance on 3-D space perception tasks showed
that the latter two groups out-performed the former. Results appear to support Brown & Grober
(1983) neuro-hormonal hypothesis.
1124.3 Study on the sex difference of undergraduates’ choices when online, Jing Liang,
Guikang Cao, Qinglin Zhang, Psychology School in Southwest Normal University, China
In this study, we planned to observe male and female undergraduates’ choices when online in
order to investigate the sex differences of their attitude and utilization toward internet. So I mainly
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