TPC-Journal-V4-Issue4

The Professional Counselor \Volume 4, Issue 4 381 The real-self and the preferred-self traits of the postgraduate students in phase 2 of the study appear in Figure 2. The postgraduate students did not indicate any extreme low scores (less than 30) or extreme high scores (more than 70) during this phase of the study. The researchers found 24 traits to be significantly different ( p < 0.05) between the real self and the preferred self of postgraduate students. Among the 24 traits, the researchers found five traits to be significantly higher in the real self than the preferred self: negativity, support seeking, self-blaming, security seeking and intellectualistic. The researchers found 19 of the 24 traits to be significantly higher in the preferred self than the real self (optimistic, achievement, dominance, endurance, order, psychologically perceptive, affiliation, exhibition, self-confidence, personal adjustment, self-satisfaction, creativity, structure valuing, masculinity, respectful, work centered, playful, affected, and scientific), indicating that the postgraduate students desired to be stronger in these traits. Figure 1. Postgraduate students’ personality traits (real/preferred) in phase 1. * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. Figure 2 . Postgraduate students’ personality traits (real/preferred) in phase 2. * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. 40 50 60 Enthusiasm *Optimism *Negativity Communality *Achievement *Dominance *Endurance *Order Psychologically Perceptive Nurturance *Affiliation Social Energy Exhibition Autonomy Aggression Change *Support Seeking *Self-Blaming Deference Counseling Readiness Self-Control **Self-Confidence *Personal Adjustment **Self-Satisfaction Creativity *Structure Valuing **Masculinity Femininity Fault Finding *Respectful **Work Centered Playful **Security Seeking Affected Intellectualistic Pragmatic Scientific Real Self Preferred Self 40 50 60 Enthusiasm **Optimism * *Negativity Communality **Achievement **Dominance **Endurance **Order *Psychologically Perceptive Nurturance **Affiliation Social Energy *Exhibition Autonomy Aggression Change **Support Seeking **Self-Blaming Deference Counseling Readiness Self-Control **Self-Confidence **Personal Adjustment **Self-Satisfaction **Creativity **Structure Valuing **Masculinity Femininity Fault Finding **Respectful **Work Centered **Playful **Security Seeking *Affected **Intellectualistic Pragmatic *Scientific Real Self Preferred Self