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Esra Eren; Funda Ergüleç; Ahmet Kara – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
Understanding how resilience evolves across the lifespan is crucial for the development of targeted interventions and strategies aimed at promoting resilience. This study aims to investigate the complex interplay between resilience, positive personality traits, and hope in emerging adults. The criterion sampling method was employed to select…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, College Students, Psychological Patterns
Fathi Said Emhemed Shaninah; Mohd Halim Mohd Noor – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The study aims to propose a predictive model that combines personality and demographic factors to predict student academic performance (SAP). This research study works on understanding, enhancing and applying techniques to enhance the prediction of SAP. Design/methodology/approach: The authors gathered information from 305 university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Bridgette Tsin Ee Wong; Kususanto Ditto Prihadi; Arman Imran Ashok; Tan Li Huan; Anne Jamaludin – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
Grit, the personal characteristic of perseverance and passion for long-term goals, plays a vital role in college students' success and well-being. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of optimism (a personal factor) and college mattering (a social factor), as well as their underlying mechanism on grit among college students. Data was…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Persistence, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits
Abbiati, Milena; Cerutti, Bernard – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Many medical schools incorporate assessments of personal characteristics, including personality traits, in their selection process. However, little is known about whether changes in personality traits during medical training affect the predictive validity of personality assessments. The present study addressed this issue by examining the stability…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Medical Students
Çagla Okay; Özgür Ulubey – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2023
The current study aimed to determine the extent to which classroom teachers' professional identity typologies predict their curriculum fidelity. A total of 332 classroom teachers participated in the current study, employing the correlational survey model. The data for the study were collected using the "Curriculum Fidelity Scale"…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Predictor Variables, Fidelity, Classification
Daniel Eriksson Sörman; Elisabeth Åström; Mikael Ahlström; Rolf Adolfsson; Jessica Körning Ljungberg – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Today, adult individuals must be able to continuously learn and adapt to the rapid changes occurring in society. However, little is known about the individual characteristics, particularly personality traits, that make adults more likely to engage in learning activities. Moreover, few studies have longitudinally and objectively investigated the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learner Engagement, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Lowe, Patricia A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The present study examined whether cultural differences in different dimensions of perfectionism exist and whether different dimensions of perfectionism (i.e., rigid and self-critical perfectionism) predicted different dimensions of test anxiety while controlling for depression in a sample of Canadian and Singapore higher education students. In…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Cultural Differences
Aarti; Kadian, Ravin – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Students' performance in academic settings, to a great extent, is an outcome of personal determinants of individuals. So, it becomes necessary to understand the role of personality traits in gaining desired academic outcomes. This investigation attempts to study some selected personality traits' contribution to students' self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Student Satisfaction
Fadia Alsmeheen – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The primary objective of this study was to examine the five major personality factors and assess the extent of moral intelligence among students at the World Islamic Sciences University. Additionally, the research aimed to identify the predictive capacity of the five major personality factors on moral intelligence. The study involved a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Ethics, Personality
Tovmasyan, Anna; Walker, Daniel; Kaye, Linda – College Teaching, 2023
The present study aimed to assess the impact of personality traits on student satisfaction with blended learning which many higher education institutions have adopted since the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Personality traits were assessed using the International Personality Item Pool and student satisfaction was recorded on a 7-point Likert scale.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Student Satisfaction, Blended Learning
Kural, Ayse I.; Özyurt, Berrin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Research has demonstrated consistently that personality and perceived stress, independently, are essential factors for university adjustment among university freshmen; however, little is known about the associations between personality, perceived stress, and adjustment together. Our primary goal was to explore the predictive utility of perceived…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Predictor Variables
Sebastian Bergold; Ricarda Steinmayr – Child Development, 2024
Based on investment theories and guided by Mussel's (2013) intellect model, the present study investigated reciprocal relations over 1 year (2021-2022) between investment traits (need for cognition, achievement motives, epistemic curiosity) and fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities in 565 German elementary school children (298 girls;…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Student Motivation
Peter Jacobsson; Tove Granqvist; Christopher J. Hopwood; Robert F. Krueger; Bo Söderpalm; Thomas Nilsson – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objectives: Non-adherence to medication is common in the adult ADHD clinical group. The goal of this pre-registered study was to examine whether the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD), generality personality dysfunction (LPFS-BF 2.0) or maladaptive personality traits (PID-5), can predict time to premature discontinuation of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Drug Therapy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
José-Luis Álvarez-Castillo; Gemma Fernández-Caminero; Carmen-María Hernández-Lloret; Hugo González-González; Luis Espino-Díaz – European Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Different personal traits could predict not only prejudice, but also practices aimed at the inclusion of vulnerable minorities in higher education. On the basis of this assumption, the study presented here sets out to confirm a predictive model of inclusive practices among university teaching staff, incorporating variables of personality,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Inclusion
Kahveci, Gökhan – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
Narcissism is a phenomenon that can have serious consequences for organizations and their employees. On the other hand, employees who show organizational citizenship behaviors, such as helping their colleagues, can help create a positive and productive work environment. In this study, it was aimed to determine teachers' perception levels of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior, Work Environment