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Meghan M. Fruth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between stress, resilience, and personality types by using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 25), and the Big Five Inventory (BFI). These measures were used to help identify the relationship between stress and resilience. They were also used to investigate the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Personality
Gerrit DeYoung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers are subject to multiple stressors in their profession and often experience significant distress, which has been found to be linked with harsh and punitive behaviors. These behaviors have been found to influence students negatively, particularly those with vulnerable temperaments. Prior research has also found such negative teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Maigan M. Wipfli – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative, phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of introverts who were involved in two or more passive or active extracurricular involvement opportunities during their undergraduate experience at a four-year college or university. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom video conferencing with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Extracurricular Activities, Extraversion Introversion
Johnnie R. Presley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While education institutions and political leaders found student perception surveys suitable for evaluating teacher effectiveness, much of the literature failed to investigate how teacher attributes, such as personality traits, affected the construction of learning environment variables, such as classroom climate dimensions. In addition, much of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Rural Schools, Classroom Environment, Social Studies
Zafonte, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Collaborative learning is the current gold standard in pedagogy, yet within collaborative classrooms are many introverted students who are more reflective in nature and may prefer learning on their own or listening to lectures over social learning. Guided by the conception of Jungian introversion and person-environment fit theory, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes
Lawrence, William K. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study focuses on the classroom experiences of students who identify themselves as learning best as reflective-observers (Assimilators) in contrast to those who learn best as active- experimenters (Accommodators), with additional consideration for their self-identified personality type (introvert vs. extrovert) as well as one of the VARK…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Personality Traits, English Instruction, Community Colleges
Secuban, Mary Jane Sarador – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose for conducting this study was to develop an understanding of undergraduate college students' social readiness for the collegiate experience. The study made use of a qualitative approach and a narrative research design that used focus group interviews. The seven focus group interviews were conducted at four sites across the Southern and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Interviews, Performance Factors
Shecter, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many universities implement programs and interventions to increase students' perceived instrumental social support within the classroom setting, yet to date, no measures exist to adequately assess such perceptions. In response to this need, the current research developed an operational definition of instrumental classroom social support and also…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Classroom Environment, Social Support Groups, Social Capital