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Krunke, Hannah Marei; Raufelder, Diana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
In order to enhance our understanding of interindividual differences in academic motivation, the present study examined the interplay of personality, psychosocial adjustment and socio-academic factors in a subsample of adolescent students identified as teacher-and-peer-independent motivation type (MT) (N = 295; M[subscript Age] = 13.71) in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Adolescents, Personality, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Kuhnle, Claudia; Sinclair, Marta; Hofer, Manfred; Kilian, Britta – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
Students' learning activities frequently compete with their leisure options, leading to regret after decisions to study. Using a sample of 233 German and 194 Australian undergraduate students, the authors explored possible determinants of the personality construct regret. They investigated whether the level to which students rely on intuition in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Intuition
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Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Perceived control is an important variable for various demands involved in successful aging. However, perceived control is not set in stone but rather changes throughout the life course. The aim of this study was to identify cross-sectional age differences and longitudinal mean-level changes as well as rank-order changes in perceived control with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Structural Equation Models, Gender Differences, Aging (Individuals)
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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
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
What predicts adults' entrepreneurial intentions? Utilizing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we investigated a path model for the effects of entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile), control beliefs, and recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence (early inventions, leadership, commercial activities) on two…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intellectual Property, Personality, Entrepreneurship
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Gluth, Sebastian; Ebner, Natalie C.; Schmiedek, Florian – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
The present study used the German Aging Semantic Differential (ASD) to assess attitudes toward younger and older adults in a heterogeneous sample of n = 151 younger and n = 143 older adults. The questionnaire was administered in two versions, one referring to the evaluation of younger adults, the other to the evaluation of older adults.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Negative Attitudes, Stereotypes, Integrity