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A Descriptive Analysis of Relationship between Extraversion-introversion and Behavior and Lifestyle Patterns among Engineering Students in India
1Abhinaw Kumar Singh, 1Rajdeep Roy, 2Shahila Zafar and 1Zaved Ahmed Khan
1School of Biosciences and Technology
2School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore-632014, TN, India
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2014 21:4606-4611
Received: January 20, 2014 | Accepted: February 10, 2014 | Published: June 05, 2014
Abstract
The present study focuses on a descriptive statistical analysis of the relationship between extraversion and introversion tendencies and various factors that can affect extraversion-introversion among engineering students in India. The factors included the native place, age, grades in English, use of social networking websites etc. The results indicated towards some interesting trends like more participants from cities, as compared to metros and villages being extraverts. The younger generation and people from North India were mostly extraverted while aging makes people introverted with time. More of those with better marks in English were extraverts and extraverts were able to speak more number of languages in general as well. A heavy use of Facebook for communication was found to be similar between extraverts and introverts. It was concluded that the study results can be used have better understanding of the relationship between extraversion/introversion and the different variables used in the study.
Keywords:
Age, engineering students, EPQ, extraversion, facebook, introversion,
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