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Ozdogan, Dilek; Akgul, Savas – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
The current study comparatively examines the emotional intelligence and perfectionism of gifted and non-identified students. A total of 857 students participated in the study. Data were collected through the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale, which measures students' perfectionism levels and the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Academically Gifted, Personality Traits, Correlation
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An De Meester; Julie Galle; Bart Soenens; Leen Haerens – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: It is widely recommended for teachers to provide positive feedback to foster the development and maintenance of children's motivation and perseverance. However, not all positive feedback has positive consequences and an important differentiation can be made between positive person-oriented feedback (i.e. 'you are very talented') and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Physical Education
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Johanna Schoenherr – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Real-world problems are important in math instruction, but they do not necessarily trigger students' task motivation. Personalizing real-world problems by (1) matching problems to students' shared living environment (context personalization) and (2) asking students to pose their own problems (active personalization) might be two…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Mathematics Instruction
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Siew, Nyet Moi; Ahmad, Jamilah – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
This research was conducted to examine the effects of the socioscientific issue with the thinking wheel map (SI-TWM) approach on the curiosity towards STEM, the construct of Exploration and Acceptance. A teaching and learning (TL) module was developed to guide teachers in implementing the SI-TWM approach to enhance curiosity among year five…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Education, Thinking Skills, Personality Traits
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Moonhyun Han; Phil Seok Oh – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Using a qualitative case study method, we examined how students talked, acted, and felt in structured inquiry in attempt to understand how students' epistemic emotions interact with their engagement in practices. Participants were four 5th graders, and data included audio recordings of the students' talk in structured inquiry for learning a…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Psychological Patterns, Science Education, Educational Practices
Gerrit DeYoung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers are subject to multiple stressors in their profession and often experience significant distress, which has been found to be linked with harsh and punitive behaviors. These behaviors have been found to influence students negatively, particularly those with vulnerable temperaments. Prior research has also found such negative teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Andrea Hughs-Baird – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Historically, students within the top 1% of general intellectual ability (GIA) have been described as having unusual personality characteristics. It is generally accepted that students within the top 1% of GIA have unusual academic abilities and educational needs; however, the unusual social-emotional needs of students within the top 1% of GIA are…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Elementary School Students
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Nash, Jane Gradwohl; Weinberger, Nanci – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The focus of this study was to explore children's evaluations of healthy peers and peers with cancer. A racially and ethnically diverse group of fourth- and fifth-grade children (n = 109) viewed a story about a child engaged in a physically challenging rock climbing tower activity at camp. The way the child (healthy or with cancer) ascended and…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cancer, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Hilz, Anna; Guill, Karin; Roloff, Janina; Aldrup, Karen; Köller, Olaf – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Although research on mathematics learning programs has taken off in recent years, little is known about how different person characteristics are related to practice behaviour with such programs. When implementing a mathematics learning program in the classroom, it might be important to know whether students with specific…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Student Characteristics, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
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Lito E. Michalopoulou; Constantinos Vouyoukas – Intercultural Education, 2024
For children, friends play an important role in their socio-emotional development and psychological well-being. Friendships may hold additional value for students who come from minoritized backgrounds. This study aimed to examine representations and themes of friendship in diverse Greek classrooms in which Roma and non-Roma elementary-age students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Student Diversity
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Ahmad, Jamilah; Siew, Nyet Moi – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
There are limited research studies about the development of questionnaire to assess the level of primary school students' curiosity towards STEM education. In this research, curiosity towards STEM Education Questionnaire (CQ-STEM) instrument was developed based on Berlyne's Theory of Curiosity. CQ-STEM consisted of 10 items measuring the two…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, STEM Education, Questionnaires, Elementary School Students
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Antonios Christodoulou; Konstantinos Tsagkaridis; Amaryllis-Chryssi Malegiannaki – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Numerous studies have explored the important role of achievement goals, as well as factors such as interest and self-efficacy, for academic performance of students of various ages. Such studies usually focus on the influence of one or two of these factors that are known to be associated with performance. At the same time, achievement goals…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Personality Traits, Influences, Mathematics Achievement
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Cadamuro, Alessia; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Trifiletti, Elena; Bisagno, Elisa; Shamloo, Soraya Elizabeth; Faccini, Martina; Vezzali, Loris – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
We aimed to validate a long and a short version of the popular SDO6 scale for children, by testing their reliability and factorial structure, as well as divergent and criterion validity. Italian fourth- and fifth-graders (N = 271; 49.45% female) were administered the Child SDO6 scale, composed of 16 items, along with a series of personality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Peer Influence
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Chunhan Huang; Junyun Shi; Xiaodong Zeng – SAGE Open, 2023
Gender disparity in education is a perpetually compelling issue. It is especially attention-grabbing in economically disadvantaged areas, as it may reinforce backwardness on top of economic vulnerability. Underpinned by the self-determination theory, this study examined the underlying mechanisms that gave rise to gender differences in the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
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Crumly, Brianna; Thomas, Jillian; McWood, Leanna M.; Troop-Gordon, Wendy – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Although a number of social--cognitive and contextual correlates of defending against bullying have been identified, research on the personality traits associated with defending have yielded weak and inconsistent results. The current study provided a novel examination as to whether a tendency toward social withdrawal is associated with less…
Descriptors: Bullying, Withdrawal (Psychology), Social Influences, Personality Traits
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