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Warne, Russell T. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2011
The Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two (OEQII) is a quantitative instrument for assessing overexcitabilities as they are described in Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration. This article uses multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to examine the measurement invariance of OEQII scores across genders. Results indicate that raw OEQII scores…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Measurement, Personality Development
Tierney, William G. – Review of Higher Education, 2013
This article uses the life history method to chronicle the challenges of a low-income, first-generation student en route to college. The paper addresses three questions: how Manuel navigates college and related topics such as roommates, family, and money; how he creates social networks; and how he works with adults such as teachers and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Biographies, Social Capital, Social Networks
Barch, Jon C.; Harris, Rachel; Bonsall, David L. – Journal of College and Character, 2012
Developing character, ethical values, social responsibility, and productive citizenship is identified in the mission of many colleges and universities. However, accomplishing and measuring such growth in students is often questionable. This article describes Northern Michigan University's Student Leader Fellowship Program, discusses development…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Personality Development, Ethics, Social Responsibility
Brahm, Taiga; Euler, Dieter; Steingruber, Daniel – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2014
The transition from school to vocational education and training is becoming more difficult for an increasing number of adolescents. Despite the growing significance of "interim solutions" (IS) shaping the pathway after compulsory education, there is hardly any research. This study aims at contributing to this research gap by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Transitional Programs, Adolescents
Mulvaney, Matthew Keefe – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
According to the narrative perspective on personality development, personality is constructed largely by interpreting and representing experience in story format (scripts) over the course of the lifespan. The focus of this paper is to describe briefly the narrative perspective on personality development during childhood and adolescence, to discuss…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Development, Child Development, Young Children
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
Lu, Hsiu-Lien; Soares, Lina – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The idea to prepare prospective teachers to teach in increasingly diverse US schools still raises a number of questions about how an international student teaching experience can be important and beneficial to student learning. What do preservice teachers perceive to be the benefits from an international student teaching experience? What do…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching, International Educational Exchange
Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2014
These essays provide richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in particular its relationship to questions of opportunity. Each one is an intellectual pemmican: sharp and to the point. Two scholars draw attention to the gendered nature of character formation (Segal and Lexmond);…
Descriptors: Essays, Values Education, Personality Development, Moral Development
Pittman, Jeffrey S. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
A greater number of campuses have broadened concepts related to student development connecting traditional student affairs and campus auxiliary services. This connection is increasingly evident in the evolution of sustainability concerns and activities. This chapter explores the role of campus auxiliaries in the promotion of campus environmental…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Personnel Services, Ancillary School Services, Sustainability
Hughes, Amy E.; Crowell, Sheila E.; Uyeji, Lauren; Coan, James A. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
Theoretical and empirical research has linked poor emotion regulation abilities with dysfunctional frontolimbic circuitry. Consistent with this, research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) finds that frontolimbic dysfunction is a predominant neural substrate underlying the disorder. Emotion regulation is profoundly compromised in BPD.…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Self Control, Pathology, Personality
Oesterdiekhoff, Georg W. – Intelligence, 2012
The essay integrates the psychometric intelligence approach with the cognitive-developmental approach or the stage theory erected by Piaget and his disciples. The latter led to Piagetian Cross-Cultural Psychology and the accumulation of an immense body of data. It shows that different IQ levels are indicative of the peculiar stages of cognitive…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Anthropology, Intelligence Quotient, Personality
Meeus, Wim; Van de Schoot, Rens; Klimstra, Theo; Branje, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2011
We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intimacy, Adolescents, Personality Change
Higginbotham, David L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study leveraged the complementary nature of confirmatory factor (CFA), item response theory (IRT), and latent class (LCA) analyses to strengthen the rigor and sophistication of evaluation of two new measures of the Air Force Academy's "leader of character" definition--the Character Mosaic Virtues (CMV) and the Leadership Mosaic…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Personality Development, Military Training, Leadership Training
Wu, Chia-Huei; Griffin, Mark A. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2012
Core self-evaluations (CSE) have been proposed as a static personality trait that influences individuals' work experiences. However, CSE can also be influenced by work experiences. Based on the corresponsive principle of personality development, this study incorporated both dispositional and contextual perspectives to examine longitudinal…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Personality
Lumpkin, Angela; Stokowski, Sarah – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2011
While interscholastic sports help young athletes enhance sport skills, physical fitness, self-discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork, time-management skills, self-confidence, and mental toughness, their benefits actually surpass even these. Interscholastic sports also promote life skills and lessons and enhance academic performance. The National…
Descriptors: Extramural Athletics, Physical Activities, Athletes, Personality Development