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Peer reviewedWasmund, William C.; Tate, Thomas F. – Child Welfare, 1988
Developed two scales to examine the relationship between personality and performance of residential child care workers. The first scale differentiated child care workers from the general population, the second "most effective" from "least effective" child care worker incumbents. Personality characteristics proved to be better…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Personality Measures, Personality Traits
Download full textBorges, Nicole J.; Roth, Karl S.; Seibel, Hugo R. – Online Submission, 2004
Vocational identity is an important construct for physician career development. Physician vocational development has been grouped into three tasks (crystallization, specification, and implementation) pertaining to career choice and specialty choice (1) In defining the construct of vocational identity, it has been suggested that the relation…
Descriptors: Physicians, Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Medical Students
Direct linkLow, Jean M.; Williamson, David; Cottingham, Jean – Journal of College Student Development, 2004
This article reports the findings from two studies. In the first, 158 students of all ages and classifications completed demographic forms, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (Cattel, Cattel, & Cattel, 1993), and the University Student Lawbreaking Scale. In the second study, 154 freshmen, ages 17 to 19, completed the same forms. The…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Income, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedBiner, Paul M.; And Others – American Journal of Distance Education, 1995
Describes a study to determine if the personality traits of students in televised college-level courses differ from those of students in traditional courses, and to identify the specific traits predictive of successful performance in televised classes. Results showed that telecourse students do have a unique profile and traits for success. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Correlation
Peer reviewedTango, Robert A.; Kolodinsky, Pit – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2004
This analysis of chronically unemployed job seekers after they completed a comprehensive job skills training program reveals dynamic interpersonal and intrapersonal characteristics that have an impact on job-finding success. Of primary interest in this study was the relationship between R. B. Cattell's (1988) second-order personality factors and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Personality Traits, Job Skills, Employment Level
Lunenburg, Fred C. – 1990
The relationship between a broad set of personality factors and principals' performance was studied using the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). How high and low performing principals actually spent their time on the job was a secondary focus of the study. Subjects were 46 elementary school and 33 secondary school principals (96%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Performance
