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Francis, Leslie J.; Byrne, Gareth; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Sweetman, Bernadette – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This study set out to explore levels of religious affect (measured by the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity) and personal affect (measured by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire) among samples of Catholic students in the Republic of Ireland attending fifth- and sixth-year classes (N = 3015) and Catholic students in Northern Ireland…
Descriptors: Catholics, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Psychological Patterns
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Karwowski, Maciej; Lebuda, Izabela; Wisniewska, Ewa; Gralewski, Jacek – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine the relation of the Big Five personality factors to two self-concept variables of growing importance in creativity literature: creative self-efficacy (CSE) and creative personal identity (CPI). The analysis, conducted on a large (N = 2674, 49.6% women) and varied-in-age (15-59 years old) nationwide sample of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Neurosis, Predictor Variables
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Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Kuznetsova, Valeriya B. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The study examined the contribution of reinforcement sensitivity to childhood personality at three levels of the hierarchical structure, mid-level traits, the Big Five and two higher-order factors, and the moderating role of sex and age in a sample of 3-18-year-olds. The canonical correlation analyses indicated that reinforcement sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Personality, Child Development, Personality Traits
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Murberg, Terje A. – School Psychology International, 2009
This study examines the relation between shyness, social support and depressive symptoms in a sample of 259 students (aged 14-16 years) in two secondary schools. Results at both time-points showed positive associations of depressive symptoms with shyness and with being female and negative associations of depressive symptoms with social support and…
Descriptors: Shyness, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Oakland, Thomas; Pretorius, Jenny D.; Lee, Dong Hun – School Psychology International, 2008
Four bipolar temperament qualities (i.e. extroversion-introversion, practical-imaginative, thinking-feeling and organized-flexible) of 800 South African children, ages 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-17, first are described and then compared to temperament qualities of 800 US children of the same ages. South African children do not differ in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Extraversion Introversion, Personality Traits
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Oakland, Thomas; Alghorani, Mohammed Adnan; Lee, Dong Hun – School Psychology International, 2007
Temperament styles of 400 Palestinian children living in Gaza are described, examined for possible gender and age differences, and compared with those of 3,200 US children in light of Jung's theory of temperament as modified by Myers and Briggs. The results show that Palestinian children generally prefer practical to imaginative, feeling to…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
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Cross, Tracy L.; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Miller, Kimberly A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
This study describes psychological characteristics of gifted adolescents. It also identifies the relationships between psychological personality types and suicide ideation. Participants in the study were 152 juniors enrolled in a public residential high school for academically gifted students. The Suicide Ideation Questionnaire, a 30-item…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Psychological Characteristics, Psychology, Personality
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Rae, Gordon; McCambridge, Karen – Psychology of Music, 2004
A sample of 120 young musicians (36 males and 84 females) aged between 15 and 18 years (M = 16.5, SD = 0.97) were administered the EPQ-R short scale and a revised PAI-R, a self-report measure of performance anxiety in practical music exams. Principal components analysis indicated that the PAI-R scores were best represented by a single component…
Descriptors: Music, Performance, Musicians, Factor Analysis