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Abdullah Sürücü; Ali Fuat Yalçin – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
A cross-sectional research design was used to examine the relationship between personality, self-compassion and social interest levels of 351 psychological counsellor candidates. Data were collected with the Personality Test of Adjectives, the Self-Compassion Scale Short Form, and the Social Interest Index. Correlation and regression analyses were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Altruism, Daily Living Skills
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Immelman, Timothy D.; Wielkiewicz, Richard M. – College Student Journal, 2020
Participants were 318 college students from two small, Catholic liberal arts institutions in the Upper Midwest. Variation (i.e., having friends with varied interests and activities) of an individual's social network was measured by a researcher-developed inventory, the Social Network Variation Scale (SNVS). Social network strength was measured by…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students
Villaverde, Diego; Unda, Sara; Escotto, Eduardo A.; Flores, Rosa – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2019
The objective of the study was to determine the predictive value of personality traits according to the Mexican model of the Five Personality Factors in the Burnout Syndrome (BOS) and its dimensions from the Gil-Monte model. Three hundred and seventy-five basic education teachers from Mexico City took part in it. The sampling was intentional,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Burnout, Case Studies, Correlation
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Lloyd, John B. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2012
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI[R]) is widely used as a staff-development tool in the business and voluntary sectors. Its Psychological Type approach is found to be a valuable aid to understanding self and others and thus to enhancing effective team-working. This continuing and growing popularity is surprising in view of the disdain with…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality, Psychological Patterns, Measures (Individuals)
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Al Otaibi, Sameera Moharib B. – Education, 2012
The aim of this study is to try to determine the relationship between the cognitive dissonance, the Big-Five Factors (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and the academic achievement. The study also aim to identify differences between female students with high cognitive dissonance and students with low…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns, Extraversion Introversion, Measures (Individuals)
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Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayeneh, Omar T. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to examine the correlation between optimism-pessimism and personality traits (extraversion, introversion, emotional stability and neuroticism), also aimed to identify the prevalence of optimism and pessimism in the study sample according to the variable sex, academic specialization, level of study, and grade point average. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
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Forbes, Gordon B.; Adams-Curtis, Leah E.; White, Kay B.; Holmgren, Katie M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2003
Perceptions of menstruating women were studied in a sample of 244, predominantly European American, college freshmen. Both women and men rated the menstruating woman, as compared with the average woman, as higher on the Neuroticism factor from Lippa's (1991) measure of the Big Five personality factors. Men also rated her as lower on the Openness,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, College Freshmen, Females, Personality