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Peets, Kätlin; Hodges, Ernest Van Every – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Youth with greater levels of narcissism face a wide array of difficulties in interactions with others. However, there exists a curious lack of research on their close relationships, such as friendships. In this study, we examined associations between narcissism and friendship features over time. Participants were 261 eighth and ninth graders (112…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship
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Julia Hormuth; Marlene Ferencz; Jutta Heikkilä; Taija Ihamäki – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2025
Student academic success plays an important role in higher education institutions, as it is often used as a core measure of university performance. Internationally, there is an extensive literature on the predictors of academic success. In addition to intellectual variables, the effects of psychological factors have received increased attention.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Zarra-Nezhad, Maryam; Viljaranta, Jaana; Sajaniemi, Nina; Aunola, Kaisa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study focused on associations between children's socioemotional development (prosocial behaviour, internalizing and externalizing problems) and parenting styles (affection, behavioural control, and psychological control), and the moderating role of children's social withdrawal (as a temperamental characteristic) in these associations.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Parenting Styles, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Silinskas, Gintautas; Ahonen, Arto K.; Wilska, Terhi-Anna – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The aim or the present study was to examine the relative importance of financial education in school and families and dispositional factors (competitiveness, work mastery, meta-cognition) in predicting financial literacy among Finnish adolescents. The data on the 4328 Finnish 15-year-olds was drawn from the PISA 2018 assessment. Financial literacy…
Descriptors: Money Management, Literacy, Knowledge Level, Adolescents
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Despite the changing global and industrial conditions requiring new approaches to leadership, management training as part of higher engineering education still remains understudied. The subsequent gap in engineering education calls for research on today's leader requirements and pedagogy supporting the inclusion of management competence in higher…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence
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Rawlings, Anna Maria; Tapola, Anna; Niemivirta, Markku – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Although temperament and motivation both reflect individual differences in what is perceived as rewarding or threatening, and what is to be approached and what avoided, respectively, we know rather little about how they are connected in educational settings. In this study, we examined how different aspects of temperament (reward and punishment…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Personality, Student Motivation, Rewards
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Ronka, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two components of life orientation emerged in study of 145 men and 142 women at age 26: Positive Orientation (PO), which included self-percepts of personal control over development; and Motivated Questioning (MQ), which consisted of identity exploration and dissatisfaction with present achievements. In comparison with MQ, PO was more strongly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2019
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2019, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Dubow, Eric F.; Huesmann, Rowell L.; Boxer, Paul; Pulkkinen, Lea; Kokko, Katja – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Outcomes of Education, Prediction, Achievement
Seitamo, Leila – 1986
Part of an ongoing longitudinal research project, a study was made to develop a method and a multilevel model for evaluating at its earliest stages the relationship between a mother and her child. The main hypothesis of the study was that the early mother-child relationship, consisting of maternal responses and a mother's images of her role in…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Individual Development