Personal Attributes in Relation to Gender and Vocational Courses

The challenge of the future has always been with students. To successfully deal with new social, educational, emotional and personal situations and also be successful in life requires many personal attributes. Personal attributes includes character traits, aptitudes, skills, values, attitudes, etc. (Yasuko Claremont ,2004).In this perspective the present study made its effort to study the effect of vocational courses and gender on adolescents' personal attributes namely instrumental( Masculine)-expressive(feminine) traits. The sample was comprised of 400 college students with equal number of male and female from Tirupati. In order to attain the objective 2X2 factorial design was employed. The data were collected with the help of Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ).The obtained data were analysed with the help of 2 way ANOVA technique. Result revealed that Vocational courses (Traditional and non-traditional) and gender (male and female) have significantly effect on adolescents' personality traits i.e. instrumental and expressive and not found significant on combination of masculinity- femininity traits. Interaction effect was found significant on separate traits of instrumental and expressive and found wrong for the combination of both types of traits in an individual.