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Ken W. Volk; Kristin E. Mehr; John A. Mills – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
Compassion and self-compassion have significant benefits for well-being and mental health. Recent literature has demonstrated that some individuals experience fear when receiving compassion from oneself or others. Fear of compassion from oneself, from others, and for others are separate but related constructs that have been strongly linked to…
Descriptors: Fear, Altruism, Personality Traits, Correlation
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García-González, Juan Manuel; Fernández-Muñoz, Juan José; Vergara-Moragues, Esperanza; García-Moreno, Luis Miguel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: This article has two objectives: a) to examine the factorial structure of the Spanish version of the EPQR-A through an exploratory factor analysis and b) to perform a confirmatory factor analysis to determine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the EPQR-A in terms of construct validity in an adult academic…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Extraversion Introversion, Neurosis, Personality Measures
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Tlili, Ahmed; Denden, Mouna; Essalmi, Fathi; Jemni, Mohamed; Chang, Maiga; Kinshuk; Chen, Nian-Shing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The ability of automatically modeling learners' personalities is an important step in building adaptive learning environments. Several studies showed that knowing the personality of each learner can make the learning interaction with the provided learning contents and activities within learning systems more effective. However, the traditional…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Management Systems, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Bayesian Statistics
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Koruklu, Nermin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to examine direct and indirect relationships among personality, selfesteem and social problem-solving, as well as the mediating role of self-esteem in the link between personality and social problem-solving among Turkish youth. The study utilized a cross-sectional design comprising several self-reports. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Self Esteem, Problem Solving
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Bordovskaia, Nina V.; Anderson, Charles; Bochkina, Natalia; Petanova, Elena I. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This article presents a comparative study of the personal adaptive capabilities of Chinese students studying in Chinese, British and Russian universities. The study involved 224 Chinese first-year students who formed 3 groups: Group 1, 96 first-year students studying in China; Group 2, 100 Chinese first-year students studying in Russia; Group 3,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Cross Cultural Studies, Personality Measures
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Belasheva, Irina Valeryevna; Petrova, Nina Fedorovna – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Present article addresses studying tolerance as a factor of personality stability, which manifests on the level of interpersonal relationships and on the level of intra-personal system of stressors resistance. The article includes theoretical analysis of the tolerance construct as an integrative personality formation. It explores the question of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Personality Traits, Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior
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Kirkagac, Senay; Öz, Hüseyin – Online Submission, 2017
This study sought to find out the possible relationships between personality traits and academic achievement of prospective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. A total of 200 university students from a major state university voluntarily participated in the study. Data were collected through the International Personality Item Tool (IPIP)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grade Point Average
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Ercan, Hulya – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: The factors related with resilience, which is an important element of positive psychology, are still being discussed. The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the resilience levels of individuals in emerging adulthood and the big five personality traits. Research Methods: Using a quantitative approach, the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Statistical Analysis
Adams, Stephen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
College students who do not successfully complete undergraduate studies by obtaining bachelor's degrees have much lower average lifetime earnings than college students who do obtain bachelor's degrees. Research suggests that one of the primary reasons for students dropping out or flunking out of undergraduate school is excessive substance use.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Prediction, Substance Abuse, Addictive Behavior
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Liu, Yi-Lin; Liang, Chaoyun – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Using science majors as an example, we analyzed how generative cognition, organizational culture, and personality traits affect student imagination, and examined the mediating effects of generative cognition and organizational culture. A total of 473 undergraduates enrolled in physical, chemical, mathematical, and biological science programs…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Imagination, Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables
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Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayeneh, Omar T. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to examine the correlation between optimism-pessimism and personality traits (extraversion, introversion, emotional stability and neuroticism), also aimed to identify the prevalence of optimism and pessimism in the study sample according to the variable sex, academic specialization, level of study, and grade point average. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
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Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Goodwin, Kimberly S.; Chu, Emma; Dahlen, Kristina – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Learners often anecdotally report preferring live instructors to videotaped lectures, but few controlled comparisons exist, and none have been conducted for foreign language learning. College students experienced a single foreign language lesson in an unknown foreign language, Samoan, either from a live instructor or from a videotape of the same…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Harrison, Neil; Chudry, Farooq – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new direction, using concepts and approaches from the field of applied psychology to examine how students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Money Management, Personality, Anxiety
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Ross, Scott R.; Benning, Stephen D.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Thompson, Angela; Thurston, Amanda – Assessment, 2009
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that includes interpersonal-affective and antisocial deviance features. The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) contains two underlying factors (fearless dominance and impulsive antisociality) that may differentially tap these two sets of features. In a mixed-gender sample of undergraduates and prisoners,…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Inhibition
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Baer, Markus; Oldham, Greg R.; Jacobsohn, Gwendolyn Costa; Hollingshead, Andrea B. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2008
We examined the possibility that teams composed primarily of individuals with personality characteristics conducive to team creativity (e.g., high extraversion, high openness to experience, low conscientiousness, high neuroticism, low agreeableness) would show synergistic increases in creativity when they experienced high levels of "team creative…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creativity, Personality, Teamwork
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