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Furnham, Adrian; Monsen, Jeremy – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
This study examines the extent to which personality traits and intelligence scores predict school level academic performance (AP), (British GCSE: General Certificate of Secondary Education; America Grade 10) in different disciplines. The participant sample consisted of approximately 250 school pupils from three schools in the South East of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence Quotient, Personality, Personality Measures
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Mavroveli, Stella; Petrides, K. V.; Sangareau, Yolanda; Furnham, Adrian – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Trait emotional intelligence ("trait EI" or "trait emotional self-efficacy") is a constellation of emotion-related self-perceptions and dispositions located at the lower levels of personality hierarchies. This paper examines the validity of this construct, as operationalized by the Trait Emotional Intelligence…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Self Efficacy, Construct Validity, Outcomes of Education
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Furnham, Adrian – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1984
Over 200 'normal' adolescents were administered self-report measures of personality (extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism), social skills, anomie, and delinquency in order to establish which of three theories best predicted delinquency. Eysenck's personality factors, particularly psychoticism, correlated most highly with delinquency. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence