Survey

Through a grant provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF 29560) and in partnership with Consulting Psychologists Press, we have been able to design and conduct an extensive survey of professional workers, informational technology (IT) professionals and a comparable set of non-information technology (non-IT) professionals. The non-IT professionals included individuals who are similar to the information technology sample in terms of education level (but not specific degree fields) and who work in jobs with comparable human attribute demands, including written comprehension, oral comprehension, oral expression, written expression, and deductive reasoning. The non-IT professionals include accountants, auditors, CEOs, CFOs, presidents, consultants, engineers, managers, administrators, management analysts, scientists, technicians, nurses, teachers, etc. The IT professionals include application developers, programmers, software engineers, database administrators, systems analysts, web administrators, and web developers. The survey items include measures of Big Five personality constructs, occupational personality variables, personal style scales, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and work-family conflict.