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Vuyk, M. Alexandra; Krieshok, Thomas S.; Kerr, Barbara A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Openness to experience is a personality factor in the five-factor model of personality, and it is composed of six facets. Facets of openness appear conceptually analogous to overexcitabilities (OEs), which are displays of inner energy guiding individuals toward advanced potential according to the theory of positive disintegration. This study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Structural Equation Models, Gifted
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Varela, Otmar E.; Cater, John James, III; Michel, Norbert – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2011
This study tests a process model of learning in which trainer and trainee traits are simultaneously considered as endogenous variables of learning outcomes. The article builds on a social view of training and similarity-attraction paradigms. In this context, the authors hypothesize that trainer-trainee similarity in personality (agreeableness)…
Descriptors: Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Attraction