Values and Personalities of Selected High School Choral Music Educators

Abstract

This study of the values and personality traits of high school choral music educators produced descriptive data for analysis and comparison by use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Rokeach's Value Survey. Diversification on both values and personality among the respondents was extreme. Composite medians of ranked values indicated that intrapersonal values ranked high at the expense of social values. Mean scores for the group were significantly elevated (at the .001 level) on the MMPI for both “hysteria” and “paranoia.” Men were elevated beyond the second standard deviation on “masculinity-femininity,” a scale measuring aesthetic sensitivity. “Ego strength,” “responsibility,” and “maladjustment” also ranked significantly high, while “dependency,” “control,” and “social desirability” ranked low.