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Yangyintao Zhao; Yong Liu; Attila Pásztor; Gyöngyvér Molnár – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Critical thinking disposition (CTD) is regarded as a personal trait within critical thinking (CT), representing an individual's tendency and attitude toward actively employing CT skills (CTS). Previous research has predominantly focused on the external influencing factors of CTD, with limited exploration into CTD itself and the interactions among…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Personality Traits, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Sebastian Bergold; Ricarda Steinmayr – Child Development, 2024
Based on investment theories and guided by Mussel's (2013) intellect model, the present study investigated reciprocal relations over 1 year (2021-2022) between investment traits (need for cognition, achievement motives, epistemic curiosity) and fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities in 565 German elementary school children (298 girls;…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Student Motivation
Farhan Ali; Yuhan Wang; Serena J.-W. Wang; Gaoxia Zhu – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Arousing and sustaining young students' curiosity within school environments is an important concern in contemporary education. Our study investigated the triggers of curiosity in elementary classrooms centered around social constructivist discourse, specifically knowledge-building. To this end, we performed longitudinal network analysis on 4166…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Arousal Patterns, Constructivism (Learning), Classroom Communication
Herwin; Nurhayati, Riana – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study aims to test proving the scale of measuring the character of students' curiosity using confirmatory factor analysis. This study uses a quantitative approach. The sample used was 325 randomly selected participants. The variable examined in this study is the character of curiosity. The curiosity variable is focused on elementary school…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Personality Traits, Factor Analysis, Elementary School Students
Meyer, Jennifer; Jansen, Thorben; Hübner, Nicolas; Lüdtke, Oliver – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Students' academic achievement is a central predictor of a long list of important educational outcomes, such as access to higher education and socioeconomic success. Prior studies have extensively focused on identifying variables that are related to academic achievement and an important variable in this context appears to be students' personality.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Meta Analysis, Elementary School Students
Munzar, Brendan; Muis, Krista R.; Denton, Courtney A.; Losenno, Kelsey – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
We propose a model delineating the role of control, value, and cognitive disequilibrium in elementary students' experience of emotions during mathematics problem solving. We tested this model across 2 studies. In Study 1, using an explanatory mixed-methods design, 136 students from Grades 3 to 6 worked on a complex mathematics problem appropriate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cognitive Processes, Affective Behavior, Mathematics Skills
Willoughby, Michael T.; Murray, Desiree; Kuhn, Laura J.; Cavanaugh, Alyson M.; LaForett, Doré R. – School Psychology, 2022
This study investigated the utility of including teacher-reported callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors in the assessment of disruptive behaviors in school-based research. Participants included 138 first- and second-grade children (68% male; 76% eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; 61% Black, 9% Latinx, 23% White, and 7% multiracial) who…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Student Behavior
Anna Johnson Dammann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Sleep is important for child development. Sleep problems in early childhood are associated with negative outcomes across numerous domains, including executive control, internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, and social competence (Astill et al., 2012; Hysing et al., 2016; Spruyt et al., 2019). Little research has focused on moderators…
Descriptors: Sleep, Child Development, Risk, Genetics
Shojaati, Abbas; Kalantari, Mehrdad; Mulavi, Hossein – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study investigates the model that personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion) and emotional abuse (peers and parents) predict the worsening of early maladaptive schemas and social anxiety symptoms in seven years old children. A total number of 210 first grade students were administered the following questionnaires: (1) Parental and Peer…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Abuse, Emotional Response, Personality Traits
Willoughby, Michael T.; Murray, Desiree W.; Kuhn, Laura J.; Cavanaugh, Alyson M.; LaForett, Doré R. – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study investigated the utility of including teacher-reported callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors in the assessment of disruptive behaviors in school-based research. Participants included 138 first- and second-grade children (68% male; 76% eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; 61% Black, 9% Latinx, 23% White, and 7% multiracial) who…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Student Behavior
Gao, Qiyang; Chen, Peiyao; Zhou, Zan; Jiang, Jielei – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
This study aimed to identify relationships between school climate, proactive personality, achievement motivation, and the trait creativity of primary school students by means of a path model. We examined 603 Chinese primary school students in terms of their perceptions of their school climates and relationships with teachers and peers. The results…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Children
Janoševic, Marko; Petrovic, Boban – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
This study investigates the contribution of personality traits (HEXACO traits and Schizotypy) and social status dimensions (sociometric and perceived popularity) in understanding boys' and girls' respective academic achievement. The sample included 163 elementary school students from Serbia, aged 14-15 (87 girls and 76 boys). Regression analysis…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Status, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
Thomas, Kendra J.; da Cunha, Josafá; Santo, Jonathan B. – School Mental Health, 2022
The purpose of this study is to understand the role of school relationships in shaping students' character development in middle childhood. Students and teachers completed surveys on student-teacher relationships, peer relationships, social-emotional learning (SEL), parent-teacher communication, and character strengths of fairness, hope, bravery,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Moral Values, Social Emotional Learning, Peer Relationship
Castro-Kemp, Susana; Palikara, Olympia; Gaona, Carolina; Eirinaki, Vasiliki; Furlong, Michael J. – School Mental Health, 2020
A dual approach to mental health in schools has been widely defended, where the assessment of psychological distress and the examination of strengths/well-being are two separate continua. In line with a well-being approach, school belonging has been referenced as an important indicator of mental health in children. This study explored the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Child Health, Predictor Variables, Student School Relationship
Castañeda López, Esther; Peñacoba Puente, Cecilia; Benito Moreno, Silvia – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2018
Introduction: The study of alexithymia in children (especially in healthy children), contrary to adult populations, has not been studied extensively, despite its relevant relation to health and quality of life. The purpose of this study was to analyze, in healthy children, the relation between children's alexithymia and their parents' alexithymia,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Correlation, Parent Influence