Personality Preferences of Outdoor Participants.

Autor/inn/en	Cashel, Christine; Montgomery, Diane; Lane, Suzie
Titel	Personality Preferences of Outdoor Participants.
Quelle	(1996), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adventure Education; Outdoor Education; Outdoor Leadership; Participant Characteristics; Personality Traits; Wilderness; Myers Briggs Type Indicator + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adventure pedagogics; Abenteuerpädagogik; Erlebnispädagogik; Freiluftunterricht; Gruppenleitung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	A study investigated the personality type preferences of people who voluntarily chose to participate in a structured, field-based, outdoor education program. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was administered to 87 participants prior to beginning a 10-day Wilderness Education Association outdoor leadership trip. Participants were 18-46 years old, had completed at least 1 year of college, and had a wide range of outdoor experience. The MBTI generates 16 possible personality types based on four bipolar dimensions: extroversion-introversion (preference for interpersonal interaction versus solitude and reflection); sensing-intuiting (as preferred means of taking in information); thinking-feeling (as the preferred basis for decision making); and judgment-perception (preference for closure and structure versus flexibility and spontaneity). Compared to the general population, the outdoor participants contained significantly higher proportions of introverted types and intuitive types but did not differ significantly on the other two dimensions. Implications of various personality types are discussed with regard to the appeal of outdoor experiences, the facilitation of group cooperation, and the effectiveness of outdoor teachers or leaders. Contains 26 references. (SV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC