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Marija Crnkovic; Marija Šaric Drnas; Diana Olcar – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
The objective of this study was to examine the role resilience plays in the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and anxiety and life satisfaction. A total of 470 students from the University of Zagreb in Croatia participated in the study. The results are explained within the framework of McCrae and Costa's (1991) temperament and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence, Anxiety
Angela S. Lauer-Schaeppi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current research investigated how students' perceptions of their professor's personality, as well as student gender and age, in online and face-to-face courses, predict undergraduate students' course satisfaction. This study was quantitative and non-experimental. Participants included 73 undergraduate students in both online and traditional…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Extraversion Introversion, Teacher Characteristics, College Faculty
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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
Maigan M. Wipfli – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative, phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of introverts who were involved in two or more passive or active extracurricular involvement opportunities during their undergraduate experience at a four-year college or university. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom video conferencing with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Extracurricular Activities, Extraversion Introversion
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La Ode Nggawu; Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
The aim of this research is to explore the effect of implementing the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach on the speaking ability of students-. The sample size for this study comprises 46 students representing the introvert class and the extrovert class, selected based on the results obtained from the distribution of questionnaires. To…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Abedini, Yasamin – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The present study aimed to present a structural model of the relationships between personality traits, metacognitive awareness, creativity and academic achievement in virtual students. Design/methodology/approach: The statistical population of the study consisted of all students of the electronic Islamic Azad University in Tehran, where…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Islam, Metacognition
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Vinje, Hilde; Brovold, Helge; Almøy, Trygve; Frøslie, Kathrine Frey; Saebø, Solve – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Historically, the introductory course in statistics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), has taken a traditional, lecture-based form. A previous study at the NMBU concluded that the course structure appeared to disfavor certain cognitive or personality types, extraverts in particular. Therefore, in 2016, as an experiment, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics Education, Active Learning
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Avram, Eugen; Burtaverde, Vlad; Zanfirescu, Andrei-?erban – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
This research tested the relationship between career adaptability and academic performance and the incremental validity of career adaptability in predicting academic performance, as well as the mediation role of career adaptability in the relationship between personality and academic performance. 437 undergraduate students completed measures of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Vocational Adjustment, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
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Rings, Guido; Allehyani, Faris – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This paper draws on a PhD thesis that investigates the relationship between personality traits and Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC). This research explores if specific personality traits of international students can enhance the success/failure of ICC development and in how far can specific personality traits influence the ability of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intercultural Communication, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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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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Immelman, Timothy D.; Wielkiewicz, Richard M. – College Student Journal, 2020
Participants were 318 college students from two small, Catholic liberal arts institutions in the Upper Midwest. Variation (i.e., having friends with varied interests and activities) of an individual's social network was measured by a researcher-developed inventory, the Social Network Variation Scale (SNVS). Social network strength was measured by…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students
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Thiele, Lisa; Sauer, Nils Christian; Kauffeld, Simone – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
Academic performance (i.e., grade point average) determines career entry factors as well as career success and is thus crucial for students' future careers. Besides individual factors such as personality traits, individuals' social embeddedness has been shown to enhance performance. Regarding academic performance, relationships to fellow students…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Career Development, Peer Relationship
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Lodewyk, Ken R. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2019
The HEXACO dimensions of personality traits (honesty--humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) have been linked to many adaptive outcomes in physical education-related (PE) settings; yet, little is known about the relationship between personality traits and motivation in students of school…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Kinetics, Physical Education
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Fatima, Irum; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed; Pathan, Zahid Hussain; Memon, Ubedullah – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In learning English as a foreign language (EFL), classroom is a primary source where learners find opportunities to make communication in the English language and enhance their L2 WTC and L2 communicative abilities. Keeping in view the pivotal importance of classroom environment in shaping EFL learners' WTC, the present research unravels the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Anxiety, Speech Communication, Extraversion Introversion
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Farag, Magdy S.; Elias, Rafik Z. – Accounting Education, 2016
Professional skepticism is an essential component of every successful audit. Research in psychology identified the trait professional skepticism as an enduring personality construct. The current study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality characteristics and accounting students' trait professional skepticism and their level of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Socialization, Correlation, Personality Traits
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