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Isik, Utku; Cengiz, Recep – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between the humor styles and personality of the students of Physical Education and Sports College. The sample of the study consists of 732 students who have been established by random method and study in four different physical education and sports colleges of Turkey in 2014-2015 the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, Personality Traits, Physical Education
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Top, Elif; Akil, Mustafa – World Journal of Education, 2018
The present study investigated the correlation between the personality traits of the university students who were engaged in sports and the ones who were not engaged in sports, and their domains of creativity. A total number of 593 students studying in the faculty of sports sciences and in other departments were included the study. As the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Athletics, Personality Traits
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Covarrubias, Rebecca; Stone, Jeff – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2015
We examined how self-monitoring (i.e., regulating one's behaviors; Snyder, 1987) relates to Latino male achievement. In Study 1, college students (N = 413) completed self-monitoring items and reported SAT math scores. As hypothesized, self-monitoring was positively correlated with achievement for Latino male students but was unrelated to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Self Management, Change Strategies, Predictor Variables
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Randler, Christoph; Horzum, Mehmet Baris; Vollmer, Christian – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
There are many studies related to distance learning. Willingness and anxiety are important variables for distance learning. Recent research has shown that anxiety and willingness towards distance learning are moderated by personality. This study sought to investigate whether distance learning willingness and distance learning anxiety are…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Distance Education, Scores, Questionnaires
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Stoltz, Sabine; Dekovic, Maja; van Londen, Monique; de Castro, Bram Orobio; Prinzie, Peter – Social Development, 2013
In this study, we investigate whether changes in child social cognitive functioning and parenting are the mechanisms through which an individually delivered real-world child intervention, Stay Cool Kids, aimed at preventing externalizing problem behavior in high-risk elementary school children, induces changes in child behavior. Moreover, we…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Problems, At Risk Students, Elementary School Students
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Alavinia, Parviz; Sameei, Abdolraoof – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was implemented to investigate the possible relationship between introversion/extroversion and the listening ability of intermediate Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners by taking into account their gender, age, and grades of study. A total of 120 Intermediate learners (62 males and 58 females) studying at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Everett, Christine M.; Schumacher, Jessica R.; Wright, Alexandra; Smith, Maureen A. – Journal of Rural Health, 2009
Purpose: To identify characteristics and outcomes of patients who use physician assistants and nurse practitioners (PA/NPs) as a usual source of care. Methods: Cross sectional analysis using the telephone and mail surveys of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), a prospective cohort study of Wisconsin high school graduates and selected siblings…
Descriptors: Siblings, Allied Health Occupations, Physicians, Nurses
Golden, Thomas Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The college choice requires the adolescent to gather and synthesize vast amounts of information, reconcile sometimes competing personal and familial goals, and manage a range of emotions. This decision process represents a major developmental crisis with which the adolescent must cope. Scholars have noted that psychological strain and heightened…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, College Choice, Prediction, 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