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Gatzka, Thomas; Hell, Benedikt – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Openness to experience has often been linked to academic achievement because it subsumes traits such as curiosity, open-mindedness, thoughtfulness, and intellectuality. However, recent meta-analyses have reported rather small true correlation estimates. In this article, we first provide a comprehensive rationale for a relationship between openness…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Meta Analysis
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Blustein, David L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
As a reaction to the article by D. M. Tokar et al. (this issue), discusses the most pressing methodological and theoretical challenges embedded in the study of family relationship factors in the career decision making of college students. Reviews outstanding theoretical and empirical issues characteristic of structural equation modeling, with a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Family Relationship, Higher Education
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Tokar, David M.; Hall, Rosalie J.; Moradi, Bonnie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
In his comments regarding Tokar et al.'s article (this issue) Blustein offered several useful suggestions for future research in the area of relationship variables and career development and raised several concerns about the rationale for and use of structural equation modeling in testing their models. In this reply, the authors note points of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Family Relationship, Higher Education
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Vogt, Christina M.; Hocevar, Dennis; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Journal of Higher Education, 2007
To resolve the dispute amongst several studies, this research investigated whether the new generation of women engineering majors, who have been better academically prepared and presumably instilled with confidence, still experience lower levels of achievement than male engineering students. This study was framed under Bandura's (1986) triadic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Engineering Education, Majors (Students), College Students