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Direct linkMunt, Jane A.; Merydith, Scott P. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2012
This study investigated whether academic non-achievers differed from academic achievers in terms of their personal characteristics. A sample of 216 undergraduate students that were either enrolled in a college restoration program or part of a control group were administered the "16PF-5 Personality Questionnaire" (Cattell, Cattell, & Cattell, 1993)…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Grade Point Average
Download full textHoussa, Marine; Nader-Grosbois, Nathalie; Jacobs, Emilie – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Using an experimental approach, our study examined the differentiated effects on pre-schoolers' social cognition of two short-term social information processing (SIP) and Theory of Mind (ToM) training sessions dealing with emotions and beliefs. The links between ToM, SIP, and social adjustment or externalizing behavior were examined. 47…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Social Cognition, Theory of Mind
Scott, Stephen; O'Connor, Thomas G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: The concept of differential susceptibility has challenged the potential meaning of personal traits such as poor ability to regulate emotions. Under the traditional model of diathesis/stress, personal characteristics such as liability to angry outbursts are seen as essentially disadvantageous, emerging under duress in a way that is…
Descriptors: Intervention, Control Groups, Comparative Analysis, Child Rearing
Bohac, Joseph J.; Frank, Peter R. – 1969
The aims of this study were to: (1) investigate the effectiveness of teaching machines in teaching vocabulary, (2) examine the relationships between various anxiety levels and the effectiveness of the teaching machine and the relationships between extroversion and introversion and the effectiveness of the machine, and (3) examine the possible…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Control Groups, English Instruction, Experimental Groups
Mitchell, Rie Rogers – 1969
A study was made to compare the effectiveness (determined by individual behavior change) of three sensitivity training conditions--spaced, massed, and combined--compared with each other and with a control group (no training); and to determine the relationship between 25 personal characteristics and the behavior change under the various conditions…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Experimental Groups
