Background: Inclusive education of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) is intended to maximize their educational experience within the mainstream school setting. While policy mandates inclusion, it is classroom teachers' behaviours that determine its success. Aims: This study provided a novel application of the theory of planned behaviour…

Authors investigated the relationship of neuroticism between divergers and convergers in a study of the cognitive and affective characteristics of university undergraduates. (RK)

The conformity hypothesis is examined by relating the lie scale scores of groups of secondary school boys to two measures of conformity. (Author)

On the whole, the personality patterns of more intelligent and academically successful Iranian students would appear to be more like those of younger British pupils than their own age-mates. The study also offers evidence that Eysenck's newly developed psychoticism scale may be a better predictor of academic and intellectual performance.…

The relationship between reading attainment, intelligence, extraversion and neuroticism was examined for groups of children whose chronological age, mental age and reading age were relatively constant. (Author)

This study sought to determine if personality traits could be added to the list of correlates of occupational choice in college students and to determine if any of the obtained personality differences between students in different college majors were due to exposure to different college curricula, or to the result of different personality types…

Successful and unsuccessful secondary school boys were studied; when motivation was of a fantasy nature it was associated with neuroticism in both groups, but with real-life items, the relationship with n/achievement and neuroticism was contrary in the two groups. (Author/SP)

This study in the Northern Nigerian educational system tested the hypothesis of British and American studies that academic achievement at primary school is positively associated with extraversion. Contrary to previous studies, the results of this inquiry yielded a significant negative association between extraversion and academic attainment.…

A sample of 741 students worked through a self-instructional chemistry program after completing tests of extraversion, neuroticism, verbal intelligence, non-verbal intelligence and background knowledge in chemistry. Results showed none of the interactions involving neuroticism was significant, and indicated that the significant interaction…

Presents the results of a study in which students undertaking postgraduate (PhD) research were given a small battery of psychological tests, the scores from which were then related to ratings provided by academic tutors. The results are discussed and some explanations are suggested. A 31-item reference list is included. (Author/JL)