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Albuquerque, Isabel; de Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Matos, Marcela; Figueiredo, Claudia – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The relation between personality and subjective well-being (SWB) remains involved in a considerable ambiguity and the numerous studies conducted have neglected an approach at a more detailed level of analysis. This study explores the idea that neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness facets predict differentially each SWB component. A…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Well Being, Personality Traits, Correlation
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Kreitler, Crystal M.; Dansereau, Donald F.; Barth, Timothy M.; Ito, Sachiyo – College Student Journal, 2009
Previous studies have demonstrated that many college students, specifically those high on extraversion are prone to risky and sometimes unethical decision-making. The present study examined the impact of a decision-making "tool" that incorporated the use of standard ethical perspectives on students' attitudes and intentions. This "fill in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Risk
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Vogrinc, Janez; Zuljan, Milena Valencic – Educational Studies, 2009
Quality performance of the increasingly important professional role of the teacher requires a continued learning and professional growth of every individual. Action research represents one of the important factors in teachers' professional development, in particular when it is designed as a collaborative process involving teachers and researchers.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Teacher Researchers, Research Methodology
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Konstantareas, M. Mary; Stewart, Kelly – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Affect regulation (AR) and temperament were examined in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To determine AR, children were exposed to a mildly frustrating situation. Temperament was assessed by the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ). Children with ASD showed greater variability in AR and used less effective AR strategies compared to…
Descriptors: Personality, Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Behavior
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Oberlander, Jon; Gill, Alastair J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
To what extent does the wording and syntactic form of people's writing reflect their personalities? Using a bottom-up stratified corpus comparison, rather than the top-down content analysis techniques that have been used before, we examine a corpus of e-mail messages elicited from individuals of known personality, as measured by the Eysenck…
Descriptors: Personality, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Individual Differences