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Irmscher, Maike – World Journal of Education, 2019
The aim of the present study is to investigate thinking styles at the interface between personality traits and intelligence. A total of 266 students in Germany and Austria completed the Thinking Styles Inventory for German-Speaking Samples (TSI-GER), the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and the Intelligence-Structure Test 2000 R (I-S-T 2000 R).…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Style, Personality Traits, Intelligence
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Blömeke, Sigrid; Dunekacke, Simone; Jenßen, Lars – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
This study examined the level, structure and cognitive, educational and psychological determinants of beliefs about the relevance and nature of mathematics, about gender-stereotypes with respect to mathematics abilities and about enjoyment of mathematics. Prospective preschool teachers from programs at vocational schools and higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Mathematics Education
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Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Ulferts, Hannah; Lüdtke, Oliver; Muck, Peter M.; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Social norms are central to theoretical accounts of longitudinal person-environment transactions. On the one hand, individuals are thought to select themselves into social roles that fit their personality. On the other hand, it is assumed that individuals' personality is transformed by the socializing pressure of norm demands. These 2…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Personality Traits, Coding, Structural Equation Models
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Dörrenbächer, Laura; Perels, Franziska – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
Most self-regulated learning theories are imbedded within a social-cognitive framework and comprise cognitive, metacognitive and motivational components. Nevertheless, these theories partly neglect volition, which is necessary for implementing learning intentions. Therefore, the present study is frontline as it aimed to integrate volition within a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Theories, Models, College Students
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Career Development Quarterly, 2012
Applying a life-span approach of human development and using the example of science-based business idea generation, the authors used structural equation modeling to test a mediation model for predicting entrepreneurial behavior in a sample of German scientists (2 measurement occasions; Time 1, N = 488). It was found that recalled early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Social Capital
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Ludtke, Oliver; Muthen, Bengt; Asparouhov, Tihomir; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin – Psychological Assessment, 2010
NEO instruments are widely used to assess Big Five personality factors, but confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) conducted at the item level do not support their a priori structure due, in part, to the overly restrictive CFA assumptions. We demonstrate that exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), an integration of CFA and exploratory…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Factor Structure, Personality Traits, Factor Analysis