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Neil Gilbride; Chris James; Sam Carr – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
In this article, we analyse the ways school headteachers/principals (HT/Ps) at different stages of adult ego development (AED) make sense of and respond to the organisational complexity of their schools. The AED stage of 20 HT/Ps in England was assessed using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. HT/Ps in the self-aware,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Individual Development, Self Concept
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Simsir, Zeynep – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2021
Self-awareness is one of the main characteristics of effective counselors. However, there is no course to help increase the level of self-awareness of counselor candidates in the Guidance and Psychological Counseling (GPC) curriculum in Turkey. The present study aimed to discover the opinions of counselor candidates about the course of personality…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Self Concept, Personality Theories, Personality Traits
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Mund, Marcus; Neyer, Franz J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Individuals feel lonely when they perceive a discrepancy between their desired and their actually experienced quantity and quality of social relationships. Prior research has demonstrated the importance of loneliness for various health-related aspects. In the present article, we extend the existing literature on loneliness by investigating its…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
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Leaney, Sarah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article builds upon a tradition of feminist critical engagements with Bourdieu, developing the concept of 'foregrounded history' as a way to conceptualise the temporal and affective in processes of habitus formation. Through analysis of affects 'produced through the social encounter' within everyday childhoods on a British council estate, the…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Personality Development
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Gilbride, Neil; James, Chris; Carr, Sam – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
The way school principals make sense of the context of their work shapes their actions. As in all adults, principals' sense-making capability is a function of the ego and can change over time. Adult ego development theory describes distinct, qualitatively different stages of sense-making ability. The research reported here assessed the adult ego…
Descriptors: Principals, Adults, School Administration, Administrator Behavior
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Bengtsson, Hans; Söderström, Micael; Terjestam, Yvonne – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Compassion may be directed at a broad range of targets. The present study investigated interrelations among other-directed compassion, self-compassion, and environmental compassion in early adolescence (age = 12-14; n = 256) and examined how the different manifestations of compassion related to age and sex during this age period. Dispositional…
Descriptors: Altruism, Empathy, Personality Traits, Early Adolescents
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Kumar, G. N. Sunith; Arockiasamy, S. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2012
Co-curricular activities provide prospects for better youth development and growth experiences. These activities are particularly good at providing opportunities for students to work in teams, to exercise leadership, and to take the initiative themselves. The active participation of the students is required to reap out maximum benefits out of such…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Parent Influence, Extracurricular Activities, Personality Traits
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Chávez-Eakle, Rosa Aurora; Eakle, A. Jonathan; Cruz-Fuentes, Carlos – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
The aims of this article are to review the multiple relations between creativity and personality, exploring the measurement instruments that have been used to identify them. Specific personality characteristics and traits found in highly creative individuals and the interaction of these traits with the creative process are described. In addition,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Creativity, Measurement Techniques
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Proulx, Travis; Chandler, Michael J. – Human Development, 2009
This research details the changing ways in which young people of different ages differently warrant the conviction that, notwithstanding evidence of good and bad behaviours, selves can be understood as unified across the various roles and contexts that they occupy. Canadian adolescents and young adults were asked to explain the apparent disunity…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior
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Lee, Ying-Chiao; Chen, Ying-Sheue – Journal of Adolescence, 1998
Temperament characteristics of Chinese adolescents in Taiwan were explored using a Chinese Adolescent Temperament self-rating questionnaire which had been previously standardized. Stepwise multiple regression with backward elimination disclosed five significant temperament factors including age, gender, sibling order, and parental education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
van Lieshout, Cornelis F. M.; And Others – 1995
A person-centered approach was followed for the study of patterns in personality development in middle childhood through early adolescence. In a longitudinal study of 100 children, the "big five" personality factors--extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness--were assessed in person descriptions by…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Early Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Bengtsson, Hans – School Research Newsletter, 1988
The development of empathy, sympathy, and consideration for others ranks as an important ingredient of social education in schools. To get across to children with deficient empathy and sympathy, knowledge about their psychological mechanisms is necessary. A project on "Psychological Mechanisms in Children with Deficient Empathy and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Communication
Grotberg, Edith H. – 1996
This article discusses the nature of resilience in children, means to measure and verify it, and attempts to promote it through education; it also describes a study of parental, teacher and caregiver efforts to promote resilience in children. The International Resilience Project examined resilience factors children and their parents use in…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Coping, Foreign Countries, Parent Role
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Repin, Sergei – Russian Education and Society, 1997
Contends that the general development acquired in preschool provides the foundation for a child's acquisition for any specialized kind of knowledge and assimilation of various activities. Views the organization of public preschool education as the creation of equal starting conditions for the shaping of the preschooler's personality, particularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Knowledge Level, Personality Development
Carr, Margaret – 1995
The concept of "learning disposition" provides a useful way of examining longer-term outcomes of quality early childhood programs and outlines characteristics of a learning orientation or disposition in early childhood. The learning disposition involves the tendency to want to do something, sensitivity to being alert to the appropriate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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