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Neto, Joana; Neto, Félix; Furnham, Adrian – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine whether a preference for specific assessment methods in higher education is associated with personality and character strengths. Two-hundred and seventy Portuguese students completed a survey of character strengths, a Big Five personality test and their preference for each of six higher education assessment…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Evaluation Methods
Paz, Jennica; Kim, Eui Kyung; Dowdy, Erin; Furlong, Michael J.; Hinton, Tameisha; Piqueras, José A.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, Tíscar; Marzo, Juan C.; Coates, Susan – Grantee Submission, 2020
The assessment of psychosocial strengths in children and adolescents has predominately focused on the measurement of single traits and constructs, such as grit (Christopoulou, Lakioti, Pezirkianidis, Karakasidou, & Stalikas, 2018), optimism (Oberle, Guhn, Gadermann, Thomson, & Schonert-Reichl, 2018), hope (Pedrotti, 2018), and gratitude…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Characteristics, Screening Tests, Holistic Approach
Bertelli, Marco; Scuticchio, Daniela; Ferrandi, Angela, Lassi, Stefano; Mango, Francesco; Ciavatta, Claudio; Porcelli, Cesare; Bianco, Annamaria; Monchieri, Sergio – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
SPAID (Psychiatric Instrument for the Intellectually Disabled Adult) is the first Italian tool-package for carrying out psychiatric diagnosis in adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID). It includes the "G" form, for general diagnostic orientation, and specific checklists for all groups of syndromes stated by the available…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Self Control, Mental Retardation, Autism
Avila, Christina; Furnham, Adrian; McClelland, Alastair – Psychology of Music, 2012
This study investigates the effect of familiar musical distractors on the cognitive performance of introverts and extraverts. Participants completed a verbal, numerical and logic test in three music conditions: vocal music, instrumental music and silence. It was predicted that introverts would perform worse with vocal music, better with…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Singing, Verbal Tests
Li, Ning; Harris, T. Brad; Boswell, Wendy R.; Xie, Zhitao – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
Drawing from an interactionist approach and feedback research, we examine the role of developmental feedback and proactive personality on newcomer task performance and helping behavior. Data were collected from 2 high-tech joint-ventures within the information technology and manufacturing industries located in Shanghai, China. Results based on 151…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Manufacturing Industry, Personality, Foreign Countries
Smirnova, Elena O. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
The main characteristic of children's play is its mental aspect--the fact that it is based on thoughts and feelings and not on objective reality. During imaginary play, children go beyond the limits of reality, and toys are tools that help them to do this. Children need character toys--toys that play the role of companion or partner--in the early…
Descriptors: Young Children, Developmental Stages, Child Development, Imagination
Levy, Shlomit; Sabbagh, Clara – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Leaning on the formal faceted definition of wellbeing (Levy and Guttman (1975) "Social Indicators Research," 2, 361-388), a mapping sentence is provided for defining the universe of observations of the wellbeing of the self-expanding on personality aspects. The structure of the interrelationships among the variables of the expanded…
Descriptors: Personality, Social Indicators, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Tamas, Zsuzsanna; Kovacs, Maria; Gentzler, Amy L.; Tepper, Ping; Gadoros, Julia; Kiss, Eniko; Kapornai, Krisztina; Vetro, Agnes – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Although major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with suicidal behaviors, some depressed individuals are not suicidal and others evidence various forms of suicidality. We thus investigated whether aspects of temperament and self-regulation of dysphoria represent risk factors for DSM-IV suicidality (recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Severity (of Disability), Personality, Risk