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Leaney, Sarah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article builds upon a tradition of feminist critical engagements with Bourdieu, developing the concept of 'foregrounded history' as a way to conceptualise the temporal and affective in processes of habitus formation. Through analysis of affects 'produced through the social encounter' within everyday childhoods on a British council estate, the…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Personality Development
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Zotova, Larisa Ed.; Prjazhnikov, Nikolaj S.; Berezhnaja, Marija S.; Ermakov, Vjacheslav A.; Melamud, Marina R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance of the studied problem is determined by the fact that the influence of the deviant environment on society, the spread of its morality, a psychological "exposure" of a less stable part of the population, that is teenagers and young adults, all this is--a reality of the contemporary social situation. The study of problems…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Experience, Personality Development
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Absatova, M.; Ussenova, ?.; Seitenova, S.; Nurpeissova, L. B. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article describes the main approaches to the problem of social success of the individual. Analysis of scientific psychological and pedagogical literature showed that Modern life requires individuals, not only in business and organizational qualities, but also the ability to navigate in a changing environment, ability to communicate,…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Personality Studies, Teacher Improvement, Success
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Walberg, Herbert J.; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
Analysis of personality traits of eminent persons (1450-1850) revealed four very common traits: intelligence, questioning, curiosity, and a strong desire to excel. (CL)
Descriptors: Gifted, Individual Characteristics, Personality Development, Personality Traits
Leinhardt, Gaea; And Others – 1976
The authors provide in this study a paradigm for the systematic investigation of autonomy in education by reviewing the thinking and research on autonomy in philosophy, education, and psychology, all of which define, analyze and value autonomy in different ways. Significant issues surrounding autonomy and strategies for dealing with them are…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Fundamental Concepts
Arkin, Robert M. – 1979
High social anxiety subjects switched from assuming greater personal responsibility for success than for failure to assuming greater responsibility for failure than for success when told that their attributions would be scrutinized by others. Low social anxiety individuals did just the opposite. Additional studies of response among high and low…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
Holsinger, Donald B.; Theisen, Gary L. – 1975
Psychological modernity implies the existence of a set of individual personality characteristics that exist across cultures and form empirically identifiable clusters of specified attitudes, values, and behaviors which define humanity. Formal, explicit school programs, as well as learning experiences provided by peculiar social organization…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Age, Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
Conrad, Rowan W. – 1974
Tracing problems observed among the Mountain-Plains student population, a trend of apparently improper or arrested personality development emerges. Observations indicate that a majority of the student population does not possess normally developed trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, sense of identity, or ability to develop intimate…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Disadvantaged, Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment
Millimet, C. Raymond; Brien, Monica – 1975
Consistent with Anderson's weighted averaging model, it was predicted that 19 subjects who were defined by a lack of differentiation among their personal constructs would experience considerable inconsistency in the factorial combination of five personality trait dimensions selected from each subject's REP test. Such inconsistency was expected to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Joure, Sylvia A.; And Others – 1975
Forty-seven male chemical industry foremen in the New Orleans, Louisiana area were given a battery of tests to determine the effects of dogmatism on supervisor-subordinate relationships. The battery of tests administered included form E of the Rokeach's dogmatism scale, the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and six other tests…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Dogmatism, Individual Characteristics, Industrial Personnel
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Ollendick, Duane G. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
A study of fourth graders and their parents was conducted to determine the relationship between parents' locus of control and their children's locus of control, anxiety, intelligence, achievement, and behavioral adjustment. The relationship between mothers' locus of control and children's characteristics was more consistent than between fathers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Children, Fathers
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Heaps, Richard A.; Morrill, Stanley G. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1979
As measured on the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, 200 Navajo and 167 White high school students appeared to be compatible in self-perceptions involving intrapersonal evaluations, but different in self-perceptions involving social comparisons or moral values more unique and important to each culture. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Cross Cultural Studies