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The Experience of Resilience and Stress as Related to Personality Types in College Students
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Meghan M. Fruth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between stress, resilience, and personality types by using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 25), and the Big Five Inventory (BFI). These measures were used to help identify the relationship between stress and resilience. They were also used to investigate the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Personality
Sexual Assault and Rape Perpetration by College Men: The Role of the Big Five Personality Traits
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Voller, Emily K.; Long, Patricia J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
A sample of 521 college men completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and an expanded version of the Sexual Experiences Survey to examine whether variation in the Big Five personality traits in a normal, college population provides any insight into the nature of sexual assault and rape perpetrators. Rape perpetrators reported lower levels of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Surveys, Sexuality
Primary School Teacher Interpersonal Behavior through the Lens of Students' Eysenckian Personality Traits
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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Charalambous, Kyriakos; Davazoglou, Aggeliki – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2010
The present study investigates the association between students' Eysenckian personality traits and their perceptions of teacher interpersonal behavior. A sample of 273 Cypriot public primary school fifth and sixth graders, as well as their teachers participated in the study. Students completed a three-part self-report questionnaire of: (a) a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
Effects of Personality on Attitudes toward Academic Group Work
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Forrester, William R.; Tashchian, Armen – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
This study investigated the effects of personality on attitudes toward academic group work among a sample of 225 business students. Data were collected using pre-existing scales for measuring personality and attitudes toward academic group work. Specifically, the Neo-FFI scale was used to measure the five personality dimensions of openness,…
Descriptors: Personality, Teamwork, Investigations, Cooperative Learning
Musical Distracters, Personality Type and Cognitive Performance in School Children
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Furnham, Adrian; Stephenson, Rebecca – Psychology of Music, 2007
The aim of this study was to ascertain the nature of the interaction between the affective value of musical distraction, personality type and performance on the cognitive tasks of reading comprehension, free recall, mental arithmetic and verbal reasoning in children aged 11-12 years. It was hypothesized that the cognitive performance of extraverts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Music, Personality, Correlation
The Role of Hostile and Benevolent Sexism in Women's and Men's Perceptions of the Menstruating Woman
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Forbes, Gordon B.; Adams-Curtis, Leah E.; White, Kay B.; Holmgren, Katie M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2003
Perceptions of menstruating women were studied in a sample of 244, predominantly European American, college freshmen. Both women and men rated the menstruating woman, as compared with the average woman, as higher on the Neuroticism factor from Lippa's (1991) measure of the Big Five personality factors. Men also rated her as lower on the Openness,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, College Freshmen, Females, Personality