This article reports on a study of the relationship between the performance of 103 students majoring in accounting and their gender and personality types. The grades of students in various accounting classes, together with overall grade point average (GPA) for those graduated, were collected. SAT scores were also analyzed when available. We identified personality types of accounting students by using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire. Further, the sample was dichotomized based on gender. Using analysis of variance (ANOVA), we examined the hypothesis of no differences between the means of any two groups of students. The null hypothesis was rejected for sensing versus intuitive individuals but could not be rejected in all other cases. Gender appeared to be an insignificant variable except for one accounting course grade and quantitative and total SAT scores. Male students outperformed female students in those cases.
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Nourayi et al. (1993) studied this question.