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Moe, Angelica – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Expectations about self-competence and difficulty of a task to be undertaken can foster motivation and hence affect engagement, giving rise to individual differences in performance. This effect was examined in a memory task. An increase in recall performance following instructions about high competence was hypothesised; in addition, a modulating…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Recall (Psychology), Self Concept, Difficulty Level
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Parker, Philip D.; Martin, Andrew J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
While much research has outlined the importance of intra-psychic factors in predicting workplace success, it is rare that attention is given to the development of these factors in training for human service professions (e.g. psychology, clergy, nursing). Accordingly, the present study explores differences in self-concept, a key intra-psychic…
Descriptors: Human Services, Structural Equation Models, Personality Traits, Personality Measures
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Ahmetoglu, Gorkan; Furnham, Adrian – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study attempted a hierarchical integration of several dispositional determinants of test anxiety (TA) [Sarason, I.G. (1984). "Stress, anxiety and cognitive interference: Reactions to tests." "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," 46, 929-938.], namely the Big Five personality traits [Costa, P.T. Jr., & McCrae,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Psychological Evaluation, Structural Equation Models