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Sakhavat Mammadov; Dana Lockhart; Anne Rinn; Thomas J. Ward – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
The aim of this study was two-fold: (a) to explore personality profiles among honors undergraduate students and regular undergraduate students, and (b) to investigate the extent to which these profiles are associated with students' well-being and coping strategies for stress. Using latent class analysis (LCA) on the Big Five personality traits of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Coping
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Yoonkyung Chung; Joo Yeon Shin – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study examined the profiles of 437 South Korean high school students, defined by their scores on four subscales of perfectionism (i.e., organisation, personal standards, concern for mistakes, and doubts about actions) from a person-centered perspective. We then assessed the mean differences across class memberships in the levels of task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Personality Traits, Learner Engagement
Hannah B. Faiman; Gabrielle A. Strouse – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
This study examined the relationship between perfectionism and academic burnout, as well as how each construct varies among honors (n = 120), high-achieving non-honors (n = 180), and typical (n = 196) undergraduate students at a mid-sized university in the United States. Results indicated the presence of group differences in perfectionism type:…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Burnout, High Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Xiaomei Li; Ruiyi Li – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Nowadays, gamification has gained widespread acceptance in education. However, limited studies have focused on whether and how game-based learning impacts university students' creativity. This study aims to explore the relationship between university students' engagement in game-based learning and their creativity. By drawing upon flow theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gamification, Game Based Learning, Creativity
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Haiyang Yu – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine the complex interactions between college students' life experiences, personality characteristics, and subjective well-being. The first objective is to understand how two specific life events affect the student population, namely academic stress and financial problems. Additionally, this study examines the…
Descriptors: College Students, Experience, Personality Traits, Student Characteristics
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Sierra M. Trudel; Melissa A. Bray; D. Betsy McCoach; James C. Kaufman; Robert E. McGrath; Tom Brunzell; Emily L. Winter – Contemporary School Psychology, 2025
In the United States, approximately two-thirds of children will be exposed to a traumatic event by the age of 16. Experiencing trauma can impact domains of positive development that may affect functioning at school. These challenges can alter learning and lead students to require a comprehensive psychoeducational assessment to determine if…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Trauma, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals)
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Berrin Okka – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The relationship between ethical dispositions and scientific and academic ethics is important in understanding how individuals' general ethical values influence their behavior in the academic setting. Examining this relationship by considering personality, which is one of the important individual characteristics, will be useful in developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Ethics
Alexander Joseph Tylka – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education practitioners and researchers in the STEM field continue seeking ways to effectively identify and understand student challenges as part of an effort to support student success, retention, and persistence. These efforts have led researchers to explore non-cognitive personality factors such as perfectionism as a way of understanding…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, College Students, STEM Education
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Tyler S. Greenway; Mason S. Ming; Juliette L. Ratchford; Perry L. Glanzer; Kevin D. Dougherty; Sarah A. Schnitker – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Depression and anxiety symptoms have risen in the last decade, especially among college students. Virtues are potentially strong predictive factors of mental health symptoms, but a minimal amount of research has explored "which" virtues are the strongest predictors. We examined the relative predictive strength of gratitude, forgiveness,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, College Students, Student Characteristics
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Mimi Wellisch – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2024
Giftedness and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) have been firmly linked since the Columbus Group's 1991 statement on giftedness and asynchrony. The theory's overexcitabilities (OEs) factor has been the main association with giftedness. Although OEs include certain characteristics associated with giftedness, they also include…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Characteristics, Psychological Characteristics, Psychological Patterns
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Bryce T. Daniels; Samantha E. Robinson; Erin K. Howie – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The study aimed to 1) examine relationships between contexts of PA, personality traits, and high school sports participation (sports) and 2) determine significant PA correlates in a college population. Participants: 237 undergraduates at a university in the United States between September 2020 and May 2021 participated. Methods:…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Students, Athletics, Physical Activity Level
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Joseph Charles Van Matre; René Bekkers; Mariëtte Huizinga; Arjen de Wit – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Choosing a course of study is one of the most consequential decisions a university student will make. While there is considerable literature investigating how personality influences students' choice of discipline, there is currently no evidence about how students cluster in disciplines relative to their civic-mindedness. This is an important gap…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Intellectual Disciplines, Selection, Student Characteristics
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Laurine Peter; Lise Lemoine; Maud Besançon – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2024
In France, many social representations refer to gifted children who describe them as hypersensitive, curious, and creative. Although sometimes inaccurate, these representations can be conveyed in media intended for children and contribute to an erroneous transmission of characteristics of children with particularities. The objective of this study…
Descriptors: French, Childrens Literature, Student Characteristics, Creativity
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Jess Wei Chin Tan; Horn Mun Cheah; Hian Chye Koh – Cogent Education, 2024
The effects of the direct and indirect relationships of personality traits on academic performance are shared in this paper. These complex relationships are examined using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with reference to the modified Biggs' 3P model. The major findings of the effects of personality traits on academic performance are (1) the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, College Students, Correlation
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Carla Bohndick; Jonas Breetzke; Katrin B. Klingsieck; Heike M. Buhl – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
The sense of belonging satisfies the need for relatedness which is one of the three basic psychological needs. It is considered to be a foundation for success in higher education. One of the predictors of sense of belonging from a psychological perspective is students' personality in the sense of Big Five traits. There are three modes in which…
Descriptors: College Students, Sense of Belonging, College Environment, Peer Relationship
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