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Fadia Alsmeheen – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The primary objective of this study was to examine the five major personality factors and assess the extent of moral intelligence among students at the World Islamic Sciences University. Additionally, the research aimed to identify the predictive capacity of the five major personality factors on moral intelligence. The study involved a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Ethics, Personality
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Abood, Mohammed H.; Alharbi, Bassam H.; Mhaidat, Fatin; Gazo, Ahmad M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The current study investigates the relationship between personality traits according to the big five personality factors model, academic self-efficacy and academic adaptation among Hashemite University students in light of gender and specialization. The purposive sample consisted of 546 under graduated students, 258 males and 306 females. Three…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Ability, Self Efficacy, Cognitive Style
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Malkawi, Nibal Abdelkarim Mousa – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
This study aimed to identify the degree of awareness of secondary school students in public schools in Jordan of modern educational concepts and the extent of their representation. The sample of the study consisted of 920 male and female students, a questionnaire consisted of 54 items was distributed among them, it was consisted of six domains,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Shawaqfeh, Baha'; Almahaireh, Abdallah – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the levels of TechnoWellness, happiness and optimism among bachelor's degree students at the University of Jordan, possible relationships between these factors, and possible differences according to gender and university faculty. Using a quantitative approach, 450 participants were selected by stratified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Wellness, Undergraduate Students, Correlation
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Al Qaisy, Lama M.; Thawabieh, Ahmad M. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the type of personalities that students had and the relationship between personality type with future anxiety and students' achievement. The sample of the study consisted of 304 students from Tafila Technical University and Al-Hussien Bin Talal University. The researchers used the big five scale which was developed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Anxiety, Gender Differences, Statistical Analysis
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Ababneh, Sana' – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper addresses itself to the outcomes of a field study which was carried out to identify Jordanian EFL students' attitudes towards using group work in EFL classrooms. The study sample consisted of 179 students enrolled in English 101, an elementary language skills course taught at Al- Huson University College, Al -Balqa' Applied University,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Smail, Linda – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, but most students have problems learning math. Although students' success in life related to their success in learning, many would not take a math course unless it is their university's core requirements. Multiple reasons exist for students' poor performance in mathematics, but one prevalent variable…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Study Habits, Personality Traits, Mathematics Anxiety
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Smail, Linda; Silvera, Ginger – Cogent Education, 2018
Many American universities located in the Middle East try to offer the stamp of higher quality in education that the United States provides and delivers. These institutions are doing an incredible job of providing opportunity for youths of that region to obtain an American education. However, these universities bear the stereotype that they are…
Descriptors: Universities, Student Attitudes, Teaching Styles, North Americans
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AlFuqaha, Isam Najib; Tobasi, Adnan – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2015
This article attempts to probe the level of creative thinking of teachers at Philadelphia University in Jordan, and to define its relation with several independent demographic variables, namely age, gender, duration of experience, specialization, and personality types and traits. To accomplish this purpose, three questionnaires are administered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Creative Thinking, Human Capital
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Jaradat, Abdul-Kareem M. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2013
Counsellors need to be able to understand perfectionism in students, and the different forms that this perfectionism may take, in order to provide their students with the appropriate counselling services. This study investigated gender differences in perfectionism, and examined the relationship of perfectionism to general self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, High School Students, Gender Differences
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Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs
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Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayeneh, Omar T. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to examine the correlation between optimism-pessimism and personality traits (extraversion, introversion, emotional stability and neuroticism), also aimed to identify the prevalence of optimism and pessimism in the study sample according to the variable sex, academic specialization, level of study, and grade point average. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
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Alnabhan, Mousa – Gifted and Talented International, 2008
The main aim of the current study was to assess the level of the emotional intelligence (EI) of high school teachers in Karak district of Jordan. A sample of 222 teachers was randomly selected and filtered on the basis of an inconsistency index. A scale of 55 items measuring empathy, emotions regulation, interpersonal management, self management,…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Self Management, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers