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Saltonstall, Margot – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study seeks to advance and expand research on college student success. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, the study investigates the contribution of psychosocial variables above and beyond traditional achievement and demographic measures to predicting first-semester college grade point average (GPA). It also investigates if…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Demography
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Ertuna, Zeliha Ilhan; Gurel, Eda – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: Entrepreneurial activities have a great impact on the economy and entrepreneurs are even more important for developing countries. Accordingly, the need for entrepreneurial graduates is increasing. Thus, this study aims to investigate the role of higher education with regard to the entrepreneurial intentions and traits of university…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intention, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship
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Logue, Christen T.; Lounsbury, John W.; Gupta, Arpana; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Career Development, 2007
Based on 164 undergraduate business majors, we examined the relationship between satisfaction with major and Holland's vocational interests and with the Big Five and narrow personality traits. Contrary to our hypothesis, enterprising scores were unrelated to major satisfaction. As hypothesized, using ipsative and normative scores, investigative,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Personality Traits, Vocational Interests, Assertiveness
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Paunonen, Sampo V.; Jackson, Douglas N. – Psychological Review, 1985
This article (1) examines the role of idiographic theory in contemporary personality assessment and behavioral prediction methodology, (2) reviews critically empirical studies designed to evaluate the idiographic theory of individual differences in predictability, and (3) presents new data on conclusions that have been advanced toward an…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Interrater Reliability