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Joshua R. Ireland – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Family structure can influence level of risk children face and their likelihood of attending college, despite many benefits associated with higher education. The Resilience Theory suggests that protective factors mitigate risk exposure and help individuals recover from negative experiences. This study involved examining relationships between…
Descriptors: Well Being, Family Structure, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology)
Chang-Tik, Chan – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the interaction between discipline and personality in a blended classroom using the community of inquiry model. To this end, a factorial ANOVA is used to determine the main effects of the high and low of each personality trait as well as the four different clusters of discipline on the presences. The…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Personality Traits, College Students, College Faculty
Nimer, Maissam – Gender and Education, 2020
Gender inequality in education has been well documented in the literature, in light of family and school socialization. We build on this literature and focus from a micro sociological perspective on the emergence of 'critical reflexivity' in the specific case of a group of university scholarship students in Lebanon. Through observations and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Selective Admission, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes
Moorhead, Holly J. Hartwig; Gill, Carman; Minton, Casey A. Barrio; Myers, Jane E. – Counseling and Values, 2012
Forgiveness as a method of addressing "wounds" has been linked to enduring aspects of personality and improved physical and mental health outcomes. The aim of this study was to understand the effects of forgiveness on counseling students' overall wellness. Counseling students (N= 115) from 5 universities completed self-report measures of…
Descriptors: Counseling, Higher Education, Mental Health, Personality Traits
Bishop-Clark, Cathy; Dietz-Uhler, Beth; Fisher, Amy – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2007
Web-based distance learning is a relatively new approach in higher education which is gaining in popularity. Because a Web-based classroom is so different than a traditional face-to-face classroom, the variables that influence success or satisfaction with such a course may be different than those in a face-to-face course. We investigated whether…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Internet, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction
Bussotti, Camille; And Others – 1988
The Type A construct, which consists of such psychological components as a sense of time urgency, competitive aggressiveness, and easily aroused hostility wich are manifested under appropriately challenging circumstances, has been studied to a great extent in adult white males. There is less research, however, on how these characteristics are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Females
Cordova, Jacobo; Jacobs, Keith W. – 1983
Research arguing the validity of the construct of the addictive personality has been criticized for methodology and because it has often been based on a narrow group of personality dimensions. To identify personality differences between drug addicts and college students from two different cultures, four groups of subjects, aged 17-25, were tested.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Drug Abuse
Vaidya, Nutan; Sierles, Frederick S.; Sandu, Ioana C.; Silberman, Edward K. – Academic Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To compare personality traits of psychiatry residents with various characteristics. Method: The authors administered Cloninger's personality inventory to residents at two schools. Results: There were no trait differences between international medical graduates (IMGs) and U.S. medical graduates (USMGs) or those for whom psychiatry was a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Physicians, Graduates, Psychiatry
Charboneau, Elizabeth Grace – 1990
This study was conducted to construct a normalized table which described the typical personality profile of nontraditional female undergraduate full-time students at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It was hypothesized that the nontraditional female undergraduate at MTSU would differ from both traditional female…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Females
Glover, Elbert D.; And Others – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1989
Results of a study of 289 undergraduate males indicate significant differences in personality traits between cigarette smokers and smokeless tobacco users. Smokeless tobacco users were more practical, conventional, and concerned with immediate interests and issues. Cigarette smokers tended to be more imaginative and Bohemian. (IAH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Males, Personality Measures

Barker, Randolph T.; Pearce, C. Glenn – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
Analyzed 17 personal attributes of 160 undergraduate students who wrote reports on a computer or by hand, and compared differences in the quality of computer and handwritten reports with each student's personal attributes. Concludes that some attributes do relate to computer writing quality. (JMV)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Handwriting, Higher Education, Personality Traits
Moore, William S. – 1983
The Maryland career course is a one-credit career planning course for undecided undergraduates based on William Perry's (1970) model of intellectual and ethical development. The Perry model can be described using four major and sometimes overlapping divisions which represent a series of positions on learning, i.e., Dualism, Multiplicity,…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Scissons, Edward H. – Engineering Education, 1984
Determined if there are differences in the assessed abilities of Canadian engineers based on length of tenure as an engineer. Also determined if there are differences in abilities between Canadian engineers who have a basic engineering degree and those who have a graduate degree in addition to the basic requirements. (JN)
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic), Engineering Education

Damsteegt, Don C.; Christoffersen, Julie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1982
Used levels of trait objective self-awareness as a blocking variable while three counseling conditions varied the amount of state objective self-awareness. Results indicated an interaction between trait and state dimensions: subjects high in trait self-awareness were most affected by the interview that sought to enhance state objective…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques

Duran, Robert L.; Kelly, Lynne – Communication Reports, 1989
Investigates specific differences in self-reports of shy and not-shy individuals regarding their communication behavior: social composure, social confirmation, social experience, appropriate disclosure, articulation, and wit. Finds significant differences on social composure, articulation, and social experience. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education