Gender Differences In Helping Behavior Analysis

Introduction
The focus of our study was analyzing the helping behavior of people based on their given personality type and then on their class rank. It was predicted that people who described their personality as extroverted would be more willing to help even in inconvenient situations versus those who indicated they were introverted. And, thus would indicate higher scores for willingness to help in the three continuous outcome questions. These predications were made based on the common notion that extroverts are more outgoing and very sociable as compared to introverts who are more reserved. The null hypothesis for the first part of the analysis is that there will be no difference between extroverts and introverts in helping behavior. Our …show more content…
We thus, failed to reject the null hypotheses; that there would be no difference between extroverts and introverts in helping behavior and that there would be no effect on the average scores for helping behaviors based on classification. The results for the independent samples t-test were not all what we had expected to see being that extroverts and introverts are essentially opposite personality types and thus a large variance in there helping behavior was expected. There are some limitations that may have affected the conclusion such as our small sample size and its lack of representation of the actual undergraduate student body at Texas A&M. There was an unequal distribution of each personality type and classification within the sample. The effect of the small sample size can also be seen in the attached graphs. In which there is a higher average in helping behavior for introverts, which is actually may not be accurate because there is an unequal representation of each personality type. The lower average for helping behavior of juniors is also not accurate in the graph analyzing classification and helping behavior, because this group was not equally represented with our sample. This study is particularly interesting in regards to personality type, due to the absence of a disparity between the helping behaviors of extroverts and introverts. This finding is interesting because it shows that regardless of personality type helping behavior may be something that everybody inherently displays. Another finding that should also be taken into consideration is that classification also does not have a significant effect on willingness to help, which is reassuring in the sense that one may be able to expect help form any fellow undergraduate aggie in difficult situations. In the future it would