LEADERSHIP AS RELATED TO BERNREUTER PERSONALITY MEASURES: II. AN ITEM ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES OF COLLEGE LEADERS AND NON- LEADERS.

The article presents a study on leadership as related to Bernreuter personality measures. The purpose of the present study is to attempt to pick out the individual items on the inventory which show a significant difference in the responses of the leaders and the non-leaders. Also an analysis of the "traits" which appear to determine these differences in response is made. To a lesser extent we are interested in the validity of the trait scales and the appropriateness of the names applied to them. The subjects are 81 college women -- 36 leaders and 45 nonleaders. The increase in the number of non-leaders is due to the inclusion of some day students. The exclusion of day students in the previous study was found not materially to change the results. The first step is the tabulation of the responses made by the two groups to each of the 125 items on the inventory. The items which appear to show a difference in response are selected from the total list. The application of the Chi-Square Test reveals that few of the 125 items in the Inventory show a significant difference in the responses of the leaders and non-leaders