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Predictors of Creative Achievement: Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Potential, Perfectionism, and Employee Engagement
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Ahmetoglu, Gorkan; Harding, Xanthe; Akhtar, Reece; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Creativity is a key ingredient of organizational effectiveness, business innovation, and entrepreneurship. Yet there remain substantial gaps in the literature in terms of understanding the antecedents of creative achievement. This study investigated the effect of perfectionism, employee engagement, and entrepreneurial potential as predictors of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Individual Differences
Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Divergent Thinking: The Role of General, Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence
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Batey, Mark; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2009
Two studies examined the relationships between measures of intelligence, personality and divergent thinking (DT) in student samples. Study one investigated the incremental validity of measures of IQ and fluid intelligence with the Big Five Personality Inventory with regards to DT. Significant relationships of DT to fluid intelligence, Extraversion…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence, Validity, Intelligence Quotient
Little More than Personality: Dispositional Determinants of Test Anxiety (the Big Five, Core Self-Evaluations, and Self-Assessed Intelligence)
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Ahmetoglu, Gorkan; Furnham, Adrian – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study attempted a hierarchical integration of several dispositional determinants of test anxiety (TA) [Sarason, I.G. (1984). "Stress, anxiety and cognitive interference: Reactions to tests." "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," 46, 929-938.], namely the Big Five personality traits [Costa, P.T. Jr., & McCrae,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Psychological Evaluation, Structural Equation Models
Personality and Approaches to Learning Predict Preference for Different Teaching Methods
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian; Lewis, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
A total of 221 (111 female and 110 male) British Medical students completed the NEO-FFI personality inventory [Costa, P. T., Jr., and McCrae, R. R. (1992). "Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual." Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.], an abbreviated version of Biggs'…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Medical Students, Educational Research, Psychological Evaluation
Explaining Individual Differences In Scholastic Behaviour and Achievement
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Petrides, K.V.; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Frederickson, Norah; Furnham, Adrian – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Background: This paper presents results from the first wave of a longitudinal study examining the effects of various psychosocial variables on scholastic achievement and behaviour at school. Aims: The main aim is to investigate the nature and strength of the effects of major individual difference dimensions on important outcome variables at school…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individual Differences, Personality Traits, Personality
Personality and Self-Assessed Intelligence: Can Gender and Personality Distort Self-Assessed Intelligence?
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
This paper examines the extent to which self-assessed intelligence (SAI) may be a function of personality traits, gender, and "actual" intellectual ability (as measured through psychometric g) in a sample of 188 (119 female) UK university students. Participants completed three cognitive ability tests and the "Big Five"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Females, Personality