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Denise Davidson; Dakota Morales; Brooke Sawyer – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2024
The college experience can significantly increase feelings of anxiety in all students, as students find themselves in evaluative settings where academic, and often social abilities, are judged. Moreover, high levels of anxiety can lead to significant difficulties with navigating the challenges of college. For students with autism symptomatology,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Personality Traits, Student Adjustment, Females
Yiling Dai; Heinz Ulrich Hoppe; Brendan Flanagan; Kyosuke Takami; Hiroaki Ogata – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
Educational recommender systems have been supporting personalized learning in various ways. However, less discussion is conducted about whether and how to personalize the strategies to generate recommendations based on student differences. In this study, we aim at investigating how students judge recommendations based on different strategies, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Individual Differences
Mahmood, Monowar; Frolova, Yuliya; Gupta, Bhumika – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: Personality traits are assumed to influence cognitive processes as well as academic motivation and learning approaches of the students. Based on these assumptions, the present study investigates the association of HEXACO personality traits with academic motivation as well as influence of those traits on students' learning approaches in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Li-Wei Wei – Online Submission, 2023
Within the sphere of educational psychology, the impact of perfectionism on academic anxiety and flexibility has been closely examined, especially in the context of Chinese postgraduates. The current study analyzed these phenomena within a cohort of 218 postgraduates from a private international Chinese college in Thailand, reflecting an amalgam…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Adjustment (to Environment), Personality Traits
Najia Zulfiqar; Tanzeela Abbasi – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
Numerous stressors, such as test anxiety, imposter phenomenon, and perfectionism. The association between the imposter phenomenon and perfectionism is well-studied, but test anxiety as a mediator of this association is not examined. The present study aimed to explore the mediating role of test anxiety on the imposter phenomenon and perfectionism…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Personality Traits
J. Erin Morpeth-Provost; Brittany P. Boyer; Samuel N. Pitasky; Chris Brownson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: In this study, we examine the prevalence and demographic, academic, and psychosocial correlates of perfectionism typologies among postsecondary students. We focus on a lesser-known typology characterized by low personal standards and moderate self-critical cognitions, which we label "discordant perfectionism." Participants:…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment
Adrien Faure-Carvallo; Sergio Nieto-Fernández; Caterina Calderon; Josep Gustems – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The objectives of this research are to analyze the sociodemographic and personality profiles most related to good academic time management among 845 students from different faculties at the University de Barcelona (UB) and to identify the explanatory factors of effective academic time management. Design/methodology/approach: Poor time…
Descriptors: Time Management, Profiles, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits
Chesser, Svetlana; Murrah, William; Forbes, Sean Alan – American Journal of Distance Education, 2020
This study was designed to investigate how college students' personality characteristics relate to their choice of instructional delivery (online or face-to-face) and whether this choice mediates the relationship between personality and academic performance. One hundred eighty-eight undergraduate students were given a choice between taking the…
Descriptors: Personality, Delivery Systems, Academic Achievement, Personality Traits
Händel, Marion; de Bruin, Anique B. H.; Dresel, Markus – Metacognition and Learning, 2020
Extensive research has been conducted to understand how accurately students monitor their studying and performance via metacognitive judgments. Moreover, the bases of students' metacognitive judgments are of interest. While previous results are quite consistent regarding the importance of performance for the accuracy of metacognitive judgments,…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Metacognition, Personality Traits, Decision Making
Winstone, Naomi E.; Hepper, Erica G.; Nash, Robert A. – Educational Psychology, 2021
Feedback can rarely enhance learning unless it is used; however, few studies have examined individual differences in students' engagement with feedback. The present study explored: (1) the extent to which personality variables and achievement goal orientation are associated with students' self-reported use of feedback; and (2) whether beliefs…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
Mcilroy, David; Todd, Valerie; Palmer-Conn, Sue; Poole, Karen – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Research on personality in the educational context has primarily focused on quantitative approaches, so this study used a mixed methods approach to capture the boarder aspects of students' learning processes. Goals were to ensure that student responses were reliable and normal (quantitative data), and to examine qualitative reflections on…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Reflection, Scores, Undergraduate Students
Asbury, Kathryn; Moran, Nicola; Plomin, Robert – AERA Open, 2016
Twin studies find ~20% of the variance in achievement in public examinations taken at age 16 in the United Kingdom can be explained by experiences not shared within families. Nonshared environmental (NSE) influences, including measurement error, explain why monozygotic (MZ) twins differ from each other. Such influences work independently of…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Twins
Jensen, Mikael – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
There has been an increased interest in personality traits (especially the five-factor model) in relation to education and learning over the last decade. Previous studies have shown a relation between personality traits and learning, and between personality traits and academic achievement. The latter is typically described in terms of Grade Point…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Learning, Grade Point Average
Zupancic, Maja; Kavcic, Tina; Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Akhmetova, Olga A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Incremental predictive value of 5 broad and 13 narrow personality traits for academic achievement over and beyond age, gender, parental education, and country was examined in Russian and Slovene 8- to 15-year-olds. Personality data were collected from mothers (Russia: N = 994, Slovenia: N = 624) and adolescents (Russia: N = 481, Slovenia: N = 310)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Compulsory Education
Damian, Lavinia E.; Stoeber, Joachim; Negru, Oana; Baban, Adriana – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Perfectionism has been shown to predict individual differences in achievement goal orientations in university students, but research on perfectionism and goal orientations in school students is still very limited. Investigating 584 adolescent school students in a cross-sectional correlational design, the present study examined how self-oriented…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation