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Chasity Echo Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to assess if and to what extent the Big Five Personality Traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), individually and combined, predict Perceived Job Stress among K-12 special education teachers in US. The study was guided by the theoretical…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions, Elementary Secondary Education
Allison Mella Paetz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to describe relationships between stress, burnout, and perfectionism and provide the first empirical documentation of the prevalence and perceived role of perfectionism among music educators. I collected quantitative data on perceived stress, stress appraisal, burnout, and perfectionism in a national…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Anxiety
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Seçgin, Pelin Çelik; Ince, Murat; Eker, Cevat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of English language teachers' perfectionism and self-efficacy perceptions on their professional motivation levels. The research was a relational survey model and causal comparison research. The study consisted of 450 English teachers working in official primary and secondary schools affiliated to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Self Efficacy, Personality Traits
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Nauzeer, Salim; Jaunky, Vishal Chandr – Pedagogical Research, 2021
Domains of motivation, learning and personality traits (MLP) have emerged as vital constructs in studies of academic performance. Although there are abundant studies on the relationships of the three aforementioned dimensions on performance, no systematic synthesis of the empirical literature has been done regarding how three determinants jointly…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement
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Shi, Qinxin; Ettekal, Idean; Liew, Jeffrey; Woltering, Steven – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
The current study examined the heterogeneity in the development of school-based prosocial behavior from Grades 1 to 12 and the role of multiple early childhood antecedents in predicting heterogeneous developmental trajectories of prosocial behavior in a sample of 784 children facing early risks and vulnerabilities (predominantly from low-income…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Predictor Variables
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Losh, Molly; Martin, Gary E.; Lee, Michelle; Klusek, Jessica; Sideris, John; Barron, Sheila; Wassink, Thomas – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Genetic liability to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be expressed in unaffected relatives through subclinical, genetically meaningful traits, or endophenotypes. This study aimed to identify developmental endophenotypes in parents of individuals with ASD by examining parents' childhood academic development over the school-age period. A cohort of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parents
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Hofer, Manfred; Kuhnle, Claudia; Kilian, Britta; Fries, Stefan – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The predictive power of cognitive ability and self-control strength for self-reported grades and an achievement test were studied. It was expected that the variables use of time structure, academic procrastination, and motivational interference during learning further aid in predicting students' achievement because they are operative in situations…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Achievement Tests
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MacCann, Carolyn; Lipnevich, Anastasiya A.; Burrus, Jeremy; Roberts, Richard D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study examines whether problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidant coping strategies predict key outcomes in a sample of 354 high school students. The four outcomes considered are: academic achievement, life satisfaction, positive feelings towards school, and negative feelings towards school. Results demonstrate that coping incrementally…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Personality Traits, Coping, Stress Management
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Rockoff, Jonah E.; Jacob, Brian A.; Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – Education Finance and Policy, 2011
Research on the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors observable at the time of hire. To extend this literature, we administered an in-depth survey to new math teachers in New York City and collected…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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D'Esposito, Susan E.; Blake, Jamilia; Riccio, Cynthia A. – Professional School Counseling, 2011
This study explored how certain personality traits, behaviors, and social status may be associated with who is targeted as a victim of peer aggression. The sample consisted of 233 students in sixth through eighth grades from rural communities. Results indicate that symptoms of anxiety, a high sense of inadequacy, and elevated social stress are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bullying, Personality Traits, Behavior
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Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Mullineaux, Paula Y.; Petrill, Stephen A.; Thompson, Lee A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
We examined the associations between components of temperament and children's word and pseudo-word reading skills, in a school-age sample using a within-family internal-replication design. We estimated the statistical prediction of word and pseudo-word reading in separate regression equations that included the main effects of, and two-way…
Descriptors: Self Control, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Correlation
Butler, Linda Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine student achievement as a function of principal personality and assistant principal personality in an elementary school setting. Student achievement, the dependent variable, was fifth grade campus mean scale scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test for reading, math, and science. Holland's…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Personality Traits, Elementary Schools, Academic Achievement
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Holcomb-McCoy, Cheryl; Gonzalez, Ileana; Johnston, Georgina – Professional School Counseling, 2009
This article examined school counselor dispositions (e.g., general self-efficacy, counselor self-efficacy, openness to change, commitment to counseling improvement/professional development) that predict data usage among K-12 professional school counselors. For the study, 130 professional school counselors from Maryland and Virginia completed the…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Elementary Secondary Education, Data, Decision Making
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Chen, Lung Hung; Kee, Ying Hwa; Tsai, Ying-Mei – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The dual model of perfectionism (Slade and Owens, Behav Modificat 22(3):372-390, 1998) is adopted to examine the influence of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism on adolescent athlete burnout in Taiwan. Participants were 188 high school adolescent student-athletes (M = 16.48, SD = 0.59). They were administered the Multidimensional Inventory of…
Descriptors: Burnout, Athletes, Foreign Countries, Social Indicators
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Zhao, Ling; Lu, Yaobin; Wang, Bin; Huang, Wayne – Computers & Education, 2011
From a self-determination theory perspective, this study tries to investigate how perceived autonomy support, perceived relatedness and competence affect high school students' intrinsic motivations (enjoyment and curiosity) to use the Internet, and the related outcomes of the motivation. Surveys are distributed to seven junior and ten senior high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
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