title: Personality profiles and leadership potential of medical-surgical and psychiatric nursing graduate students.
abstract: When personality profiles and leadership potential of psychiatric and medical-surgical nursing graduate students were compared, using the California Psychological inventory (CPI) and the Managerial Key for the CPI, medical-surgical majors scored significantly higher on the CPI scale (p greater than .05). Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind. In the Managerial Key for the CPI, the test of leadership potential on both groups received a high rating, comparable to that of the top-management group in the original research.
mesh_terms: D002641:Chicago; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D007857:Leadership; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D013041:Specialties, Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing