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Noona Kiuru; Dawn DeLay; Katja Tervahartiala; Juho Polet; Riikka Hirvonen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: Peer relationships during adolescence play an important role in shaping academic outcomes. The present study examined friend influences on emotions towards math, as well as the role of temperament in these influences. Sample: The sample consisted of 350 Finnish students (mean age 13.29 years; 64% girls) who were involved in…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Influence, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
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Erzen, Evren; Ozabaci, Nilufer – Journal of Education, 2023
The current study examined the relationship between personality traits, social support perceptions, academic self-efficacy and the adjustment to university. Participants were 992 university students (615 [62%] female, 377 [38%]) male. Results showed that social support, conscientiousness, extraversion and at low levels agreeableness predicted…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Social Support Groups
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Hill, Patrick L.; Weston, Sara J.; Jackson, Joshua J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The current study examined whether relationships also influence personality trait development during middle and older adulthood, focusing on the individual's perception of support from the relationship partner. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 20,422; mean age = 65.9 years), we examined the longitudinal relationships between…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Adults, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship
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Uz, Cigdem; Cagiltay, Kursat – Digital Education Review, 2015
Digital games have become popular due to great technological improvements in recent years. They have been increasingly transformed from co-located experiences into multi-played, socially oriented platforms (Herodotou, 2009). Multi-User Online Games provide the opportunity to create a social environment for friendships and strengthen the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Video Games, Interpersonal Competence
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Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Examines to what extent peer relations, self-confidence, and school performance correlate with self-rated happiness and loneliness in adolescents. Personality traits, self-confidence, friendship, and school grades were all significantly oppositely correlated with happiness and loneliness. Regressional analysis revealed that extraversion and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Extraversion Introversion, Friendship
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Suurmeijer, Th. P. B. M.; Van Sonderen, F. L. P.; Krol, B.; Doeglas, D. M.; Van Den Heuvel, W. J. A.; Sanderman, R. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
The relationships between two personality characteristics (neuroticism, extraversion), three types of supportive transactions (emotional support, social companionship, instrumental support) and satisfaction with these transactions, and two aspects of mental health (feelings of anxiety and depressive mood) were studied among 280 patients with early…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Extraversion Introversion