The Relationship between Personality, Gender and Hotel Department: The Case of Alanya

Sevcan Yıldız, Engin Üngüren and Cihan Polat

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Abstract: This study evaluates relationship between personality, gender and departments of a random sample of 91 employees working in 5-star hotels in the Alanya Region of Turkey. Evaluation was conducted using Cattell’s 16 PF (Sixteen Personality Factor) questionnaire. T-test assessed the relationship between personality and gender and one-way Anova analysed personality and department relationship. Results indicate that in the relationship between personality and gender there were significant variance for the openness to change. 16 PF showed significant differences for openness to change, vigilance, privateness and perfectionism subscales, in terms of personality and department relationship.

Keywords: Personality Tests; 16 PF; Tourism; Hotels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05-25, Revised 2008-07-19
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Published in TOURISMOS: An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism 1.4(2009): pp. 29-43

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