Personality types of accounting students and faculty: Comparisons and implications |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Information Management, Ling-Tung University, No.1, Ling-Tung Rd., Taichung 408, Taiwan, ROC;2. Natural Science Division in General Education Center, Ling-Tung University, No.1, Ling-Tung Rd., Taichung 408, Taiwan, ROC;3. Department of Civil Engineering, National Chung Hshin University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC;4. Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA;5. Department of Civil Engineering, Universityof Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Iraq;1. Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;2. Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran;3. Department of Medical Virology, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran;1. Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryocho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan;2. Department of Nanostructure and Advanced Materials, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Kohrimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan;1. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine;2. Brighton University, Brighton, UK;1. Gerencia de Aplicaciones Nucleares en la Salud, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México 52750, Mexico;2. Gerencia de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México 52750, Mexico;3. CONACyT, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México 52750, Mexico;4. Departamento de Biología de la Reproducción, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México 14080, Mexico |
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| Abstract: | This exploratory study presents and discusses differences found in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) types (personality preferences) of undergraduate and graduate accounting students, as well as accounting faculty members as they apply to two concerns. The first is the ability of today's accounting education programs to attract the types of students demanded by the profession. The second is the propensity of accounting faculty to expand traditional teaching modalities beyond those aimed at disseminating technical accounting knowledge. The results (using chi square tests) indicate significant differences in certain MBTI types among the groups, which have implications for accounting programs as they attempt to implement fundamental changes advocated by the profession and the Accounting Education Change Commission. The implications are discussed as they relate to accounting students who are predominantly extraverts, sensors, thinkers, and judgers, as well as to attracting and retaining a more diverse group of students. The implications of expected changes in teaching modalities are also discussed as they relate to accounting faculty who are predominantly introverts, sensors, thinkers, and judgers. |
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