This study investigated the relationship between stress, resilience, and personality types by using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 25), and the Big Five Inventory (BFI). These measures were used to help identify the relationship between stress and resilience. They were also used to investigate the…

This quantitative study aimed to investigate the influence of teacher personality on teacher-student relatedness, student intrinsic motivation, and academic performance. The pressing need to understand the factors influencing educational outcomes driving this study arises from the desire to enhance teaching effectiveness and student success. By…

This quantitative correlational study examined the relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction. Participants consisted of 126 full-time technical college faculty members in the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). The Five-Factor Model (FFM) served as the theoretical framework. The Individual Contributor format of the…

Teachers are subject to multiple stressors in their profession and often experience significant distress, which has been found to be linked with harsh and punitive behaviors. These behaviors have been found to influence students negatively, particularly those with vulnerable temperaments. Prior research has also found such negative teacher…

The current research investigated how students' perceptions of their professor's personality, as well as student gender and age, in online and face-to-face courses, predict undergraduate students' course satisfaction. This study was quantitative and non-experimental. Participants included 73 undergraduate students in both online and traditional…

Special education students continue to underperform as compared to their general education peers. The purpose and the research question of this study explored to what extent there is a statistically significant correlation among the personality traits of Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism exclusively, and to what extent is there a gender…

This qualitative, phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of introverts who were involved in two or more passive or active extracurricular involvement opportunities during their undergraduate experience at a four-year college or university. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom video conferencing with…

Effective leadership practices are essential for the success of most companies. Authentic leadership practice is effective to foster team collaboration, and it will contribute to the company's success. The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of successful leaders, focusing on enterprising youth engaged in high-risk IT startups…

While education institutions and political leaders found student perception surveys suitable for evaluating teacher effectiveness, much of the literature failed to investigate how teacher attributes, such as personality traits, affected the construction of learning environment variables, such as classroom climate dimensions. In addition, much of…

As Internet technologies have grown, virtual employees have become a large part of many sectors of business. The problem is that virtual team members may have lower job satisfaction than counterparts in traditional roles and virtual workers may suffer from turnover. Transformational leadership is associated with higher employee job satisfaction…

The problem addressed in this study was the issue of technology integration in the classroom by alternate route teachers. The goal was to find a possible correlation between teacher personality and their ability to integrate technology. In this quantitative study, 174 completers from the New Pathways to Teaching New Jersey (NPTNJ) alternate route…

Collaborative learning is the current gold standard in pedagogy, yet within collaborative classrooms are many introverted students who are more reflective in nature and may prefer learning on their own or listening to lectures over social learning. Guided by the conception of Jungian introversion and person-environment fit theory, this qualitative…

Although Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) have traditionally been considered a lifelong condition, there appear to be a subset of people who make such significant improvements that they no longer meet diagnostic criteria for autism. The current study examines whether these "optimal outcome" (OO) children and adolescents, despite losing…

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,…

In this dissertation, the researcher examined and added to the body of knowledge within the project change management field of technology implementation. The rationale behind the study was to evaluate technology acceptance of Enterprise Social Networking (ESN), which has been widely implemented across over 90% of the "Fortune" 500…