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Hübner, Nicolas; Spengler, Marion; Nagengast, Benjamin; Borghans, Lex; Schils, Trudie; Trautwein, Ulrich – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Students' academic achievement is a key predictor of various life outcomes and is commonly used for selection as well as for educational monitoring and accountability. With regard to achievement indicators, a differentiation has traditionally been drawn between grades and standardized tests. There is initial, albeit inconclusive, evidence that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Achievement Tests, Personality Theories
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Bell, G. Ronald; Crothers, Laura M.; Hughes, Tammy L.; Kanyongo, Gibbs Y.; Kolbert, Jered B.; Parys, Kristen – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2018
The authors examined the degree to which callous-unemotional traits and narcissism predict relational aggression, social aggression, and prosocial skills in a sample of 79 adolescent offenders (13-18 years old; 26% girls; 74% boys) attending a school for youth with behavior disorders in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Narcissism made a significant…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Personality Traits, Aggression, Maturity (Individuals)
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Demirci, Ebru; Çepikkurt, Fatma – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study was carried out with the goal of examining the relationship between athletes' passion and perfectionism levels and athlete burnout, and to determine to what extent passion and perfectionism scores predict burnout experienced by athletes. A total of 267 athletes, located in various parts of Turkey and competing in various branches of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletes, Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits
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Arslan, Coskun; Bülbül, Ayse Eliüsük; Büyükbayraktar, Çagla Girgin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The main objective of this research is to determine the relationship between shyness, emotional intelligence and the five factor personality traits in university students. Furthermore it aims to determine whether the emotional intelligence and personality traits predict the Shyness levels at a significant level. The population of this study…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, College Students
Akpur, Ugur – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to find out the predictive degree of university students' levels of need for cognition and metacognition on their academic achievement. A total of 253 university students formed the study group. To collect the data of the study, "The Metacognition Awareness Inventory" (MAI) and "The Need for Cognition…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes
Yalcin, S. Barbaros; Kavakli, Mehmet; Kesici, Sahin – Online Submission, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the undergraduates' personality traits and self-esteem predict their forgiveness. Methods: The study was conducted using a descriptive research designed as a relational survey method. The study group consists of 323 undergraduates, of whom 250 (77.2 %) are female and 73 (22.5%) are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Self Esteem, Predictor Variables
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Yoleri, Sibel – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The aim is to investigate the relationships between the temperament and character traits and burnout dimensions among preschool teachers. In total, 130 preschool teachers participated in this study. All participants were asked to complete the Temperament and Character Inventory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Findings indicate a positive…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Teacher Burnout, Predictor Variables
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Moulton, Vanessa; Flouri, Eirini; Joshi, Heather; Sullivan, Alice – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children's aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children's aspirations were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Young Children, Occupational Aspiration
Capellan, Frank – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types and second language acquisition. The study addressed a problem that is inadequately investigated in foreign language acquisition research; specifically, personality traits as predictors of language learning in college students studying Spanish as a foreign…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Second Language Learning, Grades (Scholastic)
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Vela, Javier C.; Sparrow, Gregory Scott; Ikonomopoulos, James; Gonzalez, Stacey L.; Rodriguez, Basilio – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
We examined how character strengths and family importance influenced Mexican American college students' life satisfaction. Using multiple regression analysis, findings indicated that optimism, grit, and gratitude were significant predictors of life satisfaction. We provide a discussion regarding the importance of these findings as well as…
Descriptors: College Students, Mexican Americans, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology)
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Navidinia, Hossein; Beidokhti, Zeinab; Hekmati, Nargess – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
This study aims to investigate the predictive power of personality traits for EFL students' preference for isolated or integrated form-focused instruction (FFI). Participants were 160 Iranian EFL university students. Results indicated that students' personality traits, as measured by Costa and McCrae (Revised NEO Personality inventory (NEO-PI-R)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Warrington, Cartmell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this study, the Big Five factor model of personality traits theory was tested for its ability to predict or explain Employee Information Security Behavior (EISB), when Generational Cohort (GCOHORT) moderated the relationship between the five factors of personality and EISB. The independent variables (IVs) Extraversion, Agreeableness,…
Descriptors: Information Security, Personality Traits, Generational Differences, Cohort Analysis
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Bozgeyikli, Hasan – Online Submission, 2017
The method of the research was defined as the descriptive survey model since it was aimed to test whether the personality traits of teachers are a significant predictor of their psychological capital levels in this study. 416 teachers (60.3% female, 39.7% male) who were teaching in the schools of Ministry of National Education in Istanbul and were…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Human Capital
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Gülaçti, Fikret – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of students to the teaching profession in terms of self-esteem, altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, humor style, a five-factor personality types of the students of the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program (PFECP), and to determine the relationships if there is between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Self Esteem, Altruism
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Kim, So-Young; Lim, Young-Jin – International Journal of Special Education, 2016
Although much emphasis has been paid to stress and burnout among special education teachers, little attention has been paid to their well-being. This study aimed to examine relations between virtues and well-being among Korean special education teachers. Virtues and well-being of 115 Korean special education teachers were assessed using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Stress Management, Well Being
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