CHAPTER 3
DISCUSSION OF THE PROBLEM This section of the paper discusses the guide questions that are identified by the researchers and provides answers to these queries using related literature and the researchers’ own analysis. The dominant personality types of Accountancy students in Xavier University have been found out and compared with other similar studies. Finally, this section also discusses what these personality types imply in respect to themselves, the school and the society.
1. What are the expected personality types of Accountancy students? Accountancy students, especially in Xavier University – (Ateneo de Cagayan) undergo a rigorous training that demands time, effort and constant study to keep up with the pace of the lessons.
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However, they explained a more definite and concrete depiction of a typical accountancy student. It should be depicted by elusive terms such as perception, judgment, integrity and wisdom (pp.1).
Based on an article entitled ‘The Personality Types of People who become accountants’ and written by Thompson (n.d), it explains how there is no single personality that is present in all accountants. He further explained that although there are diverse personality types of Accountancy students, some characteristics have been found to be common among accounting students. They tend to trust what they perceive with their sense; tend to rely on logical thoughts than emotions or intuition; and focused on getting things done in a logical and methodical fashion (www.everydaylife.globalpost.com).
3. What are the implications of these personality types?
The personality types of the Accountancy students of Xavier University – (Ateneo de Cagayan) helps the faculty and staff identifies methods and ways to better their teaching styles and enable their students to easily grasp the material that is used
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As I reflect on the various learning activities in this first week’s unit assignment on how the relevance of personality theories is important and what is personality theory I can gain insight by understanding its theories. I can apply this learning toward my professional life; by learning the different Behaviors and analyzing the Analysis in Psychology by understanding Personality and the Developmental behavior also refers to the different pattern in the way people think ,such as feelings, social adjustments ,and thoughts. This Method will be used thought out my course I will learn to understand the different personality characteristics this general information and the analysis will support and improve my critical thinking
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This experiment focuses on the average personality traits of Texas A&M students, which we evaluate using descriptive statistics. We can use descriptive statistics to subscribe, show, or summarize data from a population in meaningful ways. By calculating multiple factors taken from the population, we can find the central tendency and variability. These two values gives us the most important information. The central tendency gives us the most typical or most representative score. These central tendency values are mean, median, and mode. Variability gives us the extent to which the scores in a group differ from each other. These include the range, average deviation, variance, and standard deviation. In this report, by examining the
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