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Reaching the Finish Line: Personality and Persistence in Post-Secondary Education
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Wilson, Claire A.; Dave, Hiten; D'Costa, Malvika; Babcock, Sarah E.; Saklofske, Donald H. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Few studies have examined the contribution of individual psychological factors to long-term indicators of academic success. This study examines the influence of personality and individual difference factors in relation to retention. In this study, 290 Canadian undergraduate students completed measures of personality, resiliency, perfectionism, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Personality, Persistence
Examining the Potential for Gender Bias in the Prediction of Symptom Validity Test Failure by MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale Scores
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Lee, Tayla T. C.; Graham, John R.; Sellbom, Martin; Gervais, Roger O. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Using a sample of individuals undergoing medico-legal evaluations (690 men, 519 women), the present study extended past research on potential gender biases for scores of the Symptom Validity (FBS) scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 by examining score- and item-level differences between men and women and determining the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Gender Bias, Personality Traits
Short-Term Stability of Psychopathic Traits in Adolescent Offenders
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Lee, Zina; Klaver, Jessica R.; Hart, Stephen D.; Moretti, Marlene M.; Douglas, Kevin S. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
There is considerable debate about the assessment of psychopathic traits in adolescence due in part to questions regarding the stability of traits. We investigated the 6-month stability of psychopathic traits in a sample of 83 male adolescent offenders using an augmented protocol for the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version and the self-report…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Males, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Factor Structure of the Psychopathology Checklist.
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Harpur, Timothy J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined whether Psychopathology Checklist contains stable and replicable factor structure by factor-analyzing data from male prisoners (N=1,119) in Canada, United States, and England. Found two-factor solution replicated in all samples. Factor 1 defined by personality traits: superficiality; habitual lying/manipulation; callousness; lack of…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Criminals, Cross Cultural Studies, Factor Structure
Aggression against Women by Men: Sexual and Spousal Assault.
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Dewhurst, Ann Marie; And Others – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1992
Compared 19 sexual offenders, 22 batterers, 10 violent community comparison subjects, and 21 community comparison subjects on demographic, personality, and attitudinal variables. Discriminating variables correctly classified 75 percent of participants. Hostility toward women and depression were two best discriminating variables, suggesting that…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attitudes, Battered Women, Criminals
Reflection-Impulsivity and Social Reasoning.
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Peters, R. DeV.; Bernfeld, Gary A. – 1980
The major purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which cognitive style, as indexed by the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT), is related to the way in which children respond to problems with social or interpersonal content. Fifty-two reflective and 64 impulsive first- and second-grade boys were presented with a number of stories in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Tempo