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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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Wu, Rongxiu; Chiu, Chungyi; Dueber, David; Park, Mirang; Lange, Dustin; Umucu, Emre; Strauser, David – International Journal of Testing, 2023
The current study examined the factor structure, measurement invariance, and construct validity of the 14-item Revised Developmental Work Personality Scale (RDWPS) using a sample of 603 college students in a Midwest university of the United States. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis results indicated that the 11-item RDWPS resulted in a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, College Students, Gender Differences, Personality Traits
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Victor Savicki; Michele V. P. Price – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Despite the importance of reflection as a crucial element in stimulating successful student experience in study abroad, attempts to define and measure this construct have been fraught with difficulty. This article describes one approach to defining and validating a measure of the reflective process. University students who participated in a…
Descriptors: Reflection, Study Abroad, Writing (Composition), College Students
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Aydin, Elif – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perfectionism, social competence and psychological well-being on physical activity of physical education students of the University of Gümüshane in Turkey. To measure variables some questionnaires were used: Wells and Cartwright-Hatton (2004) for perfectionism; Julvez et al. (2008) for…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competence, Well Being, College Students
Hadi Rajabbeigi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A large proportion of students in the United States is international students. Thus, educational leaders need to facilitate the learning process for this population. This study investigated the characteristics of international students that affect their academic performance. The purpose of this study was to determine how individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation, Metacognition
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Loveland, Thomas R. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2017
Recent papers on career and college readiness have emphasized preparation of secondary students for either future college and/or career choices (Robles, 2012, Rateau, Kaufman & Cletzer, 2015). While technologies used in business change rapidly and make the teaching of job-specific skills somewhat impractical, the foundational skills needed for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Technology Education, Personality Traits, Work Ethic
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Whiting, Erin Feinauer – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2021
This mixed-method research explores how students (ages 12-15) describe dispositional qualities for belonging and fitting in one junior high school. Inductive coding of open-ended responses about perceptions of belonging in school shows candor about the emotional performances and management of emotions for belonging at school. Recommendations for…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Student Attitudes, Student School Relationship, Peer Acceptance
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Tarabrina, Natalia; Grabovskaya, Elena; Tikhonov, Alexey; Kraev, Yury – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The objective of the article is the correspondence of individual and typological features of the student to the chosen direction, which promotes successful adaptation to study at the university and readiness for future professional activity. The aim is to reveal psychological features of personality of students: doctors, engineers, and jurists.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Individual Differences, Correlation
Goodwin, Bryan; Hein, Heather – Educational Leadership, 2016
U.S. high school graduation rates have risen steadily for the past decade, hitting an all-time high of 82 percent in 2013-14 (Rich, 2015). Yet there's a dark cloud behind this silver lining. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education (2015), only 59 percent of students who enter four-year colleges complete their…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Time to Degree, College Graduates
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Kerr, Barbara; McKay, Robyn – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
Profiling may be a viable means of identifying those creative adolescents who can benefit from specialized guidance and exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, arts, and human services. The experimenters developed 1 general and 5 specific profiles including interest, personality, and achievement variables…
Descriptors: Profiles, Creativity, Adolescents, STEM Education
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Santos, Antonio J.; Peceguina, Ines; Daniel, Joao R.; Shin, Nana; Vaughn, Brian E. – Social Development, 2013
This study tested assumptions and conclusions reached in an earlier confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) study of the social competence (SC) construct for preschool children. Two samples (total N = 408; a new Portuguese sample and one from US samples that had participated in the original study) contributed data. Seven SC indicators were tested for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
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Illovsky, Michael E. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2010
This is a study of 57 graduate students and 229 undergraduate students in classes preparing them to be teachers. The survey extended over a period of five years, involving 14 classes in a college of education. Using the Personality Research Form scales to compare the psychological aspects of undergraduate and graduate college of education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Psychology, Psychological Patterns
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Zupancic, Maja; Kavcic, Tina – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The role of child's characteristics (gender, cognitive ability, mother-perceived personality traits), family environment (maternal education, self-reported parenting practices) and pre-school experience (at least three years vs. no experience) in social adjustment to school, reflected through teacher reports on social competence and internalising…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Parenting Styles, Preschool Children, Social Adjustment
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Richardson, Rita Coombs; Arker, Emily – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2010
Teachers' personality traits are reflected in their classroom instruction--especially in their selection of various instructional strategies, the materials they choose, and their classroom management techniques. Moreover, personality styles are positively interrelated with learning styles as well as teaching styles. In many classrooms, however,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Personality Traits, Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles
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