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. 2017 Mar 14;8:378. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00378

Table 2.

Means, standard deviations, and Cronbach's alpha coefficients of personality traits and psychometric properties as functions of the sample (UNIV, student; CW, CrowdWorks) and gender (Survey 1).

UNIV (N = 131) CW (N = 295)
Male (n = 74) Female (n = 57) Male (n = 107) Female (n = 188)
α M SD [95% CI] M SD [95% CI] α M SD [95%CI] M SD [95% CI]
EXa 0.706 7.39 3.17 [6.72, 8.06] 7.28 3.30 [6.52, 8.04] 0.746 5.99 2.53 [5.43, 6.55] 6.85 2.91 [6.43, 7.27]
Aa 0.411 9.82 2.51 [9.29, 10.35] 9.74 2.25 [9.13, 10.34] 0.447 9.09 2.48 [8.65, 9.53] 9.34 2.16 [9.00, 9.67]
Ca 0.479 6.58 3.03 [5.98, 7.18] 6.26 2.40 [5.58, 6.95] 0.569 6.88 2.31 [6.38, 7.38] 7.36 2.72 [6.98, 7.73]
ESb 0.309 7.28 2.61 [6.71, 7.86] 6.04 2.28 [5.38, 6.69] 0.601 7.21 2.29 [6.73, 7.69] 6.43 2.69 [6.06, 6.79]
Ob, c 0.245 8.50 2.53 [7.92, 9.08] 7.07 2.65 [6.41, 7.73] 0.533 7.81 2.54 [7.33, 8.29] 7.62 2.46 [7.26, 7.98]
RSEc 0.814 29.39 7.88 [27.63, 31.15] 26.35 6.14 [24.34, 28.36] 0.889 27.59 7.58 [26.12, 29.05] 28.24 8.13 [27.14, 29.35]
PAGOa 0.671 16.31 4.11 [15.56, 17.07] 16.16 2.90 [15.30, 17.02] 0.719 15.19 3.26 [14.56, 15.82] 15.23 3.08 [14.75, 15.70]
PPGOa 0.737 16.23 4.28 [15.46, 17.00] 15.42 3.45 [14.54, 16.30] 0.707 14.94 2.97 [14.30, 15.59] 15.02 3.16 [14.54, 15.51]
MVSa 0.744 27.97 5.99 [26.63, 29.31] 26.37 6.09 [24.84, 27.89] 0.782 26.16 5.46 [25.05, 27.27] 25.70 5.96 [24.86, 26.54]

EX, Extraversion; A, Agreeableness; C, Conscientiousness; ES, Emotional Stability; O, Openness to Experience; RSE, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem scale; PAGO, Performance Avoid Goal Orientation; PPGO, Performance Prove Goal Orientation; MVS, Material Value scale.

a

CW participants are significantly different from students (p < 0.05),

b

significant gender difference (p < 0.05),

c

significant sample × gender interaction (p < 0.05).