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Ugur Akpur – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Creativity has long been consistently assessed as a fundamental aspect of educational psychology and has been treated with much devotion by scholars. In this study, intricate relationship patterns between creativity, emotional intelligence, and personality traits were examined. The Marmara Creative Thinking Dispositions Scale, Trait Emotional…
Descriptors: Creativity, Emotional Intelligence, Personality Traits, Universities
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Erzen, Evren; Ozabaci, Nilufer – Journal of Education, 2023
The current study examined the relationship between personality traits, social support perceptions, academic self-efficacy and the adjustment to university. Participants were 992 university students (615 [62%] female, 377 [38%]) male. Results showed that social support, conscientiousness, extraversion and at low levels agreeableness predicted…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Social Support Groups
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Nesrin Çunkus Köktas; Gülseren Keskin; Gülay Tasdemir Yigitoglu – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
It is known that individuals use the internet more to escape from the psychological problems they encounter in daily life during the pandemic. Besides, it is also known that individuals with personality traits such as neuroticism and extraversion might be prone to internet addiction due to poor communication skills. It is important to determine…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Nursing Students, COVID-19
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Winstone, Naomi; Balloo, Kieran; Gravett, Karen; Jacobs, Daniel; Keen, Harry – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Students' engagement in extra-curricular activities can play a significant role in their development of a student identity, as well as leading to a greater sense of belonging and wellbeing. However, individual characteristics such as sociability may influence the likelihood of students engaging in extra-curricular activities. We collected mixed…
Descriptors: Well Being, Sense of Community, Equal Education, Barriers
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Aldo Ramirez-Arellano – SAGE Open, 2024
Several investigations have focused on the relationship between personality and learning performance. However, the relationships among personality traits, motivation, emotional and behavioral engagement, and metacognitive-cognitive strategies remain unexplored. This research introduces a model based on a personality system set comprising…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Metacognition
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Isgör, Isa Yücel – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
In this research, the relationship between fear of happiness among university students and their types of personality was investigated through analyzing various factors, such as relationships, gender, perceived parental attitudes and locations of upbringing. The subjects of study in this research consisted of the students at Balikesir Necatibey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Fear, Psychological Patterns
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Sebastian Franz; Sina Fackler; Jennifer Paetsch – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
The present study investigates the effect of pre-service teachers' cognitive abilities and personality traits on graduation and teacher self-efficacy using data from the German National Education Panel Study (N = 5 520). Applying latent profile analysis, we found four different profiles of pre-service teachers based on high school grade point…
Descriptors: Profiles, Preservice Teachers, Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability
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Aydin, Oya Tamtekin – Journal of International Students, 2020
The relationship between local and international students has become one of the most important topics in the literature on the internationalization of education; however, these discussions have focused mainly on Western countries and on the perspectives of students who are from similar home countries. The views of students who choose to study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Friendship, Foreign Students
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Andreas V. Klein; Lukas Roediger; Antonia Bendau; Leonard Viohl; Felicitas Ernst; Jonas Helbig; Franziska Kühne; Moritz Bruno Petzold; Felix Betzler – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Problem-drinking among university students is common and poses serious health-related risks. Therefore, identifying and addressing associated factors is important. Participants and methods: A large cross-sectional online-survey with 12,914 university students from Berlin was conducted from November 2016 to August 2017. Relative-risk-…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Tüfekçibasi, Seda; Sahin, Mustafa – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between cognitive flexibility levels and personality traits of university students and whether these variables differ according to gender, education department, cigarette and alcohol use. The research was carried out with 151 students studying in the English language education, physical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Student Characteristics, College Students, Correlation
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Räty, Hannu; Kozlinska, Inna; Kasanen, Kati; Siivonen, Päivi; Komulainen, Katri; Hytti, Ulla – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine what sort of ability expectations university students have about the requirements of working life, and how the perception of these expectations relate to students' perceptions of their own employability. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Expectation, Student Attitudes
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Otanga, Habil – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of university students towards COVID-19, and further, some personality characteristics that exacerbate the risk of infection. Out of the 300 university students based in Mombasa, Kenya, targeted in the online study, 219 submitted their filled questionnaires.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Cárdenas Moren, Camila; Crawford Augant, Kathleen; Crawford Labrin, Broderick; Soto de Giorgis, Ricardo; de la Fuente-Mella, Hanns; Peña Fritz, Álvaro; Valenzuela Saavedra, Matías; Hermosilla Monckton, Pamela; Álvarez Castelli, Lorena – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This study focuses on identifying personality traits in engineering students and testing whether they are related to academic performance. In addition, the importance of the personality construct in the educational and vocational training context was studied. A sample of 235 students from the Construction Engineering and Computer Engineering…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Matošková, Jana – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
Despite years of debate over the usefulness of tacit knowledge, limited empirical research has quantitatively studied the contribution that tacit knowledge makes to university students' performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which tacit knowledge correlates with other predictors and indicators of academic performance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Knowledge Level, Predictor Variables
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Zhang, Jing; Paulhus, Delroy L.; Ziegler, Matthias – Educational Psychology, 2019
Previous research on Western college samples has identified a number of personality traits associated with scholastic cheating. Based on these findings, we suggest a model integrating personality predictors of cheating. However, it remains unclear whether the proposed model can be generalised to the Chinese culture, which has different norms and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
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