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Szymanski, Antonia; Wrenn, Melissa – Roeper Review, 2019
The cognitive perceptions that enable gifted children to process academic information in superior ways also qualitatively impact the psychosocial dimensions of their lives. Overexcitabilities represent common super-sensitive areas in gifted children. However, giftedness does not end with adulthood and neither do the complex processes of…
Descriptors: Adults, Gifted, Social Isolation, Peer Relationship
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Rungi, Mait – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2019
Purpose: Studies have found that founders of start-up companies are similar to students in certain psychological characteristics. Confirming this similarity would have methodological and phenomenological implications. Phenomenologically, students are a main source for recruitment in start-up companies. Methodologically, students are a more…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Entrepreneurship, Personality Traits, Values
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Strom, Kathryn; Margolis, Jason; Polat, Nihat – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: Despite noted difficulties with defining and assessing teacher dispositions, U.S. state education departments and national accreditation agencies have included dispositions in mandates and standards both for determining teacher quality and for assessing the quality of the teacher preparation programs that certify them. Thus,…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Personality Traits, Definitions, Teacher Evaluation
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Direktor, Cemaliye; Nuri, Cahit; Okray, Zihniye; Huseyinzade Simsek, Anjelika – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between site use intentions and personality beliefs of social network users. The Education faculty students at a private university in North Cyprus were informed about the research and the questionnaires were applied by the researchers to volunteer students. From total of 198 students, 143…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Personality, Intention
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Barnett, Lynn A. – American Journal of Play, 2019
Research about playfulness in adults has viewed it as something that emanates from personality and other individualized characteristics, and therefore many previous studies adopted a trait approach to predict playfulness, largely ignoring gender differences. The author conducted a facet-level analysis of the so-called big-five personality…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Humor
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Paterson, Sarah J.; Wolff, Jason J.; Elison, Jed T.; Winder-Patel, Breanna; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Botteron, Kelly; Dager, Stephen R.; Hazlett, Heather C.; Piven, Joseph; Piven, J.; Hazlett, H. C.; Chappell, C.; Dager, S.; Estes, A.; Shaw, D.; Botteron, K. N.; McKinstry, R. C.; Constantino, J.; Pruett, J.; Schultz, R. T.; Paterson, S.; Zwaigenbaum, L.; Elison, J.; Evans, A. C.; Collins, D. L.; Pike, G. B.; Fonov, V.; Kostopoulos, P.; Das, S.; Gerig, G.; Styner, M.; Gu, H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
The present study investigated the relationship between infant temperament characteristics and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk status. Temperament was examined at 6, 12, and 24 months in 282 infants at high familial risk for ASD and 114 low-risk controls using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised and Early Childhood Behavior…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Infants, At Risk Persons
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Tan, Chee-Seng; Lau, Xiao-Shan; Kung, Yian-Thin; Kailsan, Renu A/L – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2019
Studies indicate that there is a positive relationship between openness to experience and creativity. However, relatively little attention has been given to the mechanism of this relationship. On the basis of previous findings, we hypothesized a conceptual model and tested the mediating role of intrinsic motivation and the creative process…
Descriptors: Creativity, Motivation, Correlation, Undergraduate Students
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Belentsov, Sergei I.; Fahrutdinova, Anastasia V.; Grevtseva, Gulsina Y.; Batrachenko, Ekaterina A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The problem of free education as the direction in reformatory pedagogics of Germany of the second half of XIX -- the beginnings of the XX centuries is staticized in this article. The child is the center of pedagogical process according to free education. Historical, system, culturological approaches are main in a research of this problem. They…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Humanistic Education, Educational Change
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Lamb, Kristen; Kettler, Todd – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
Imagination and creative self-efficacy (CSE) are important components of the creative process and outcomes but are rarely investigated together. To explore the relationship between personality factors, imaginative thinking, and CSE, survey responses were gathered from university students in a southwestern region in the United States (n = 1,731).…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Imagination
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Garvin Brod; Jasmin Breitwieser – npj Science of Learning, 2019
Curiosity stimulates learning. We tested whether curiosity itself can be stimulated--not by extrinsic rewards but by an intrinsic desire to know whether a prediction holds true. Participants performed a numerical-facts learning task in which they had to generate either a prediction or an example before rating their curiosity and seeing the correct…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Learner Engagement, Prediction
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Perkmen, Serkan; Toy, Serkan; Caracuel, Alfonso; Shelley, Mack – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
The main purpose of the current study was to develop a 50-item personality scale in Turkish and Spanish based on Big Five Model of Personality and to assess its construct validity and reliability. We also compared the personality of pre-service teachers enrolled in the department of elementary education in Turkey and Spain. The participants were…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Preservice Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Chatwin, Nicole Erica – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Educational administrators are expected to provide guidance to various stakeholders within the school environment. Educational administrator personality traits and leadership style were the focus of this study. Two research questions guided the focus of the current study. The first question examines the association between the degree of the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Styles, Personality Traits
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Meyer, Jennifer; Jansen, Thorben; Hübner, Nicolas; Lüdtke, Oliver – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Students' academic achievement is a central predictor of a long list of important educational outcomes, such as access to higher education and socioeconomic success. Prior studies have extensively focused on identifying variables that are related to academic achievement and an important variable in this context appears to be students' personality.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Meta Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Anselmus Dami, Zummy; Butarbutar, Marlon; Kusradi, Sri Wahyuni – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2023
This research aimed to analyze the differences between two models of pedagogy. The research method used is content analysis. Results showed a significant difference between neoliberal pedagogy and the pedagogy of shalom. The aspects of difference were the purpose of Christian religious education (CRE), the content of CRE, the target of CRE, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Religious Education, Christianity
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Forsberg Lundell, Fanny; Arvidsson, Klara; Jemstedt, Andreas – Second Language Research, 2023
This study investigated what psychological and social factors predict 'perceived nativelikeness' in late second language (L2) learners of French (L1 Swedish) (N = 62) with a minimum length of residence (LOR) of 5 years in France. The included factors were: language aptitude (LLAMA), acculturation (VIA), personality (MPQ), target language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Prediction, Language Aptitude
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