Study of Personality Traits for University Students by Egogram Analysis

Abstract

Subjects enrolled were 250 students at 1 st grade in Tokushima University, Japan. They were freshmen of Faculty of Engineering, and they took the class and workshop by the authors. Our class has been given to the students as special workshop including psychology, culture, medicine, multidisciplinary subjects and so on. This class has been continued for years with our management and research and has provided to the students at 1 st and 4 th grade of 4-year faculty course, and 1 th grade of postgraduate course. Methods were the investigation of personality trait using TEG. It is a highly reliable psychological test, which was based on the concept of transactional analysis [8][9][10]. It has 60 questions and can be answered and evaluated easily in about 10 minutes. By simple