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Tyler A. Sassenberg; David M. Condon; Alexander P. Christensen; Colin G. DeYoung – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Previous research has investigated the nature of imagination as a construct related to multiple forms of higher-order cognition. Despite the emergence of various conceptualizations of imagination, few attempts have been made to explore the structure of imagination as a trait in the context of existing hierarchically-nested personality dimensions.…
Descriptors: Imagination, Cognitive Processes, Measures (Individuals), Personality Assessment
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Martí Valls, Carla; Balazadeh, Kitty; Kajonius, Petri – International Journal of Testing, 2023
The Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) consists of level of personality functioning (Criterion A) and maladaptive personality traits (Criterion B). The brief scale versions of these are understudied, while often being used by clinicians and researchers. In this study, we wanted to investigate the overlap and predictive…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Factor Analysis, Personality Traits, Guides
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Schermer, Julie Aitken; Krammer, Georg; Goffin, Richard D.; Biderman, Michael D. – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
The differentiation of personality by intelligence hypothesis suggests that there will be greater individual differences in personality traits for those individuals who are more intelligent. Conversely, less intelligent individuals will be more similar to each other in their personality traits. The hypothesis was tested with a large sample of…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Intelligence, Individual Differences
Tanya Marroquin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effect of introducing an environmental education (EE) in three classrooms (C1, C2, C3) using three different pedagogy methods and if student's personalities determine how the information is perceived. A teacher-focused classroom (C1), a student-focused classroom (C2), and a third classroom used labs and hands-on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Dahmen-Wassenberg, Phoebe; Kämmerle, Monika; Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich; Fink, Andreas – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This study examined the relation between different facets of creativity and personality, focusing on the dark side of personality. In a sample of 247 students, psychometric measures for the assessment of the dark triad of personality (subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy), personality organization (structural deficit:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
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Walters, Kenneth S.; Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Troiano, Peter F.; Obiaka, Uzoma; Bonhomme, Rebecca – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2018
Research on college substance use and mental illness is limited and inconsistent. Measures of substance use, and anxiety and depressive symptoms, were completed by 1,316 undergraduates within a major drug transportation corridor. Hierarchical linear regressions were used to test associations between anxious and depressive symptoms and substance…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Undergraduate Students, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Challa, Sowmya – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to identify any trends in personality traits of students at a mid-western university along with the influence of gender, choice of STEM or non-STEM academic major, and level of education on personality traits. The chosen mid-western university is Indiana State University (ISU) located in Terre Haute, Indiana. This…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Trend Analysis, College Students, Gender Differences
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Olsen, Joel; Kalinski, Ray – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
Online professors typically assign teams based on time zones, performance, or alphabet, but are these the best ways to position student virtual teams for success? Personality and task complexity could provide additional direction. Personality and task complexity were used as independent variables related to the depended variable of team…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Personality Traits
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Naemi, Bobby; Seybert, Jacob; Robbins, Steven; Kyllonen, Patrick – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
This report introduces the "WorkFORCE"™ Assessment for Job Fit, a personality assessment utilizing the "FACETS"™ core capability, which is based on innovations in forced-choice assessment and computer adaptive testing. The instrument is derived from the fivefactor model (FFM) of personality and encompasses a broad spectrum of…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Test Validity
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Aziz, Saman SH.; Ali, Sirwan K. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Background and objectives: Personality disorders are enduring, persistent and pervasive disorders of inner experience and behavior that cause distress or significant impairment in social functioning. They have strong relationship to offending and violence; our aim in the study was to determine the prevalence rate of each specific types of…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Males, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Razavi, Roya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The major aim of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' emotional intelligence and their personality traits in an Iranian context. To this end, 85 Iranian EFL teachers were asked to fill out The Big Five Inventory Personality Test (John & Srivastava, 1999) and The Bar-On Emotional Intelligences test (1997). The results…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Teacher Characteristics, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Blagov, Pavel S.; Bi, Wu; Shedler, Jonathan; Westen, Drew – Assessment, 2012
The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) is a personality assessment instrument designed for use by expert clinical assessors. Critics have raised questions about its psychometrics, most notably its validity across observers and situations, the impact of its fixed score distribution on research findings, and its test-retest reliability. We…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Test Validity
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Ward-Steinman, Patrice Madura – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
Thirty vocal improviser-educators from Australia (n = 15) and the United States (n = 15) were surveyed for musical background, influences and pedagogical views, and assessed for personality type using the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" ("MBTI"). The purpose was to both combine and compare the two groups to identify overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Music Teachers
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Allan, Nicholas P.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Wilson, Shauna B. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
Temperament is a developmentally important construct, hierarchically comprised of several lower-order dimensions subsumed under effortful control, negative affectivity, and surgency. The Children's Behavior Questionnaire-Very Short Form (CBQ-VSF) was developed as a brief measure of the higher-order factors of temperament to aid researchers in…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Preschool Children, Questionnaires
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Griffin, B.; Wilson, I. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Given the accumulating evidence that performance in medical school and beyond is related to personality, it is important for research to consider how personality assessment can be included as part of the process of selecting medical students. Interviews are one way of measuring personality and this study extends prior research investigating…
Descriptors: Evidence, Medical Education, Medical Students, Personality Assessment
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