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Integrative Character Education (ICE): Grounding Facilitated Prosocial Development in a Humanistic Perspective for a Multicultural World
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White, Robert; Shin, Tae Seob – Multicultural Education Review, 2017
Character Education initiatives within schools have gained both proponents and opponents over recent years and continue to garner mixed reviews. Proponents argue that the need is urgent and the increasing level of school disruption, antisocial behavior and violence requires a focus on values/virtues/moral education and claim this is synonymous…
Descriptors: Values Education, Prosocial Behavior, Humanism, Humanistic Education
Impact on Intercultural Competence When Studying Abroad and the Moderating Role of Personality
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Ramirez R., Enrique – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2016
The purpose of this study is to assess how studying abroad impacts the development of intercultural competence and the moderating role of student's personality. This research uses a pre-post design with a sample of 264 undergraduate students from four Colombian universities; it includes a group of students who participated in a one semester…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Interpersonal Competence, Study Abroad, Personality
An Investigation of Measurement Invariance across Genders on the Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two
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Warne, Russell T. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2011
The Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two (OEQII) is a quantitative instrument for assessing overexcitabilities as they are described in Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration. This article uses multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to examine the measurement invariance of OEQII scores across genders. Results indicate that raw OEQII scores…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Measurement, Personality Development
An Assessment of Character and Leadership Development Latent Factor Structures through Confirmatory Factor, Item Response Theory, and Latent Class Analyses
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Higginbotham, David L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study leveraged the complementary nature of confirmatory factor (CFA), item response theory (IRT), and latent class (LCA) analyses to strengthen the rigor and sophistication of evaluation of two new measures of the Air Force Academy's "leader of character" definition--the Character Mosaic Virtues (CMV) and the Leadership Mosaic…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Personality Development, Military Training, Leadership Training
Assessing the Interpersonal Circumplex Model in Late Childhood: The Interpersonal Behavior Questionnaire for Children
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Di Blas, Lisa; Grassi, Michele; Luccio, Riccardo; Momente, Silvia – Assessment, 2012
The authors developed the Interpersonal Behavior Questionnaire for Children with the aim of assessing the constructs of the interpersonal circumplex model, that is, Dominance and Love and their possible combinations, via third- to fifth-grade children's self- and peer reports. In the three studies presented herein, the authors examined several…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Psychometrics
Measuring Self-Perceptions of Oral Narrative Competencies and Anxiety in the EFL Context
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Faber, Gunter – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: Due to a considerable lack in empirical efforts and appropriate instruments, and theoretically rooted in a cognitive-motivational perspective on academic personality development, the present study analyzes a questionnaire for measuring EFL learners' self-perceptions of oral narrative competencies and perceived anxiety concerning oral…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Personality