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Direct linkNoora J. Al-Thani; Zubair Ahmad – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2025
This open access volume explores the transformative role of Research Cognitive Theory (RCT) in education, emphasizing its application in fostering curiosity, creativity, innovation, problem-solving skills, and cognitive development across all educational levels in students and professional development in teachers. Through detailed discussions on…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Innovation, Creativity, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedIngram, Jesse C.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Problem Solving Inventory to 20 Black and 32 White inmates. Recidivists scored significantly higher on the impulsive scale of the Problem Solving Inventory. Demonstrated the utility of the MMPI and the PSI in discriminating between nonviolent and violent criminals. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Males, Personality Traits, Prisoners
Peer reviewedStruthers, C. Ward; Perry, Raymond P.; Menec, Verena H. – Research in Higher Education, 2000
This study with 203 college students used structural equation analysis and found that the relationship between students' academic stress and course grades was influenced by problem-focused coping and motivation, but not by emotion-focused coping. Greater academic stress covaried with lower course grades. (DB)
Descriptors: Coping, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedGoldstein, Felicia G.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Administered The Matching Familiar Figures Test to 45 seven- and eight-year-olds to assess the relationship between cognitive style and temperamental variables such as distractibility, persistence, and mood. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Download full textLochman, John E.; Lampron, Louise B. – 1983
Group treatment based on cognitive-behavioral and social problem solving strategies has been found to produce significant improvement in aggressive children. To investigate the association between clients' initial behavioral and subjective characteristics and the degree of improvement displayed on behavioral measures over the treatment period, 76…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Children, Cognitive Processes
Lueder, Donald C. – 1983
This study aims to explore leadership characteristics and contribute evidence to the validity of Jungian personality typology by investigating the relationship between principals' personality types and their reported problem-solving strategies. To test the hypothesis that the manner in which the principals report that they would solve a problem…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Peer reviewedVolkema, Roger J.; Bergmann, Thomas J. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Reports on a study of the relationships between assertiveness and cooperativeness dimensions of conflict styles among 202 graduate business students. Finds that preferences for assertiveness are reflected in both strategic and tactical use of behaviors. Also finds cooperativeness is associated with last-choice behaviors. (CFR)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Business Education, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Nowaczyk, Ronald H. – 1983
Research directed toward a better understanding of the computer user/computer machine relationship has increased in recent years. To identify what factors may predict success in computer programming, 286 college students from three computer classes (160 from introductory programming; 60 from Cobol programming; and 66 from senior level programming)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Science
