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Maadikhah, Elham; Erfani, Nasrollah – Online Submission, 2014
Learned helplessness as a negative motivational state can latently underlie repeated failures and create negative feelings toward the education as well as depression in students and other members of a society. The purpose of this paper is to predict learned helplessness based on students' personality traits. The research is a predictive…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Motivation, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Fitch, Trey; Marshall, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to apply psychobiography to the lives of Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Psychobiography can be applied as a method of teaching personality theory and it can also be used as a research method. Most political personas are crafted through 20 second sound bites from the radio, Internet, and television. However, a…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Theories, Current Events, Research Methodology
Ahmed, Ramadan A.; Rohner, Ronald P.; Khaleque, Abdul; Gielen, Uwe P. – Online Submission, 2010
Purpose. The purpose of this article is to summarize the rich and growing body of research that draws from parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) and associated measures as used throughout the Arab world. Methodology. This body of work includes more than 100 studies that explore the reliability and validity of Arabic adaptations of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Psychologists, Mental Health, Arabs
Saparniene, Diana; Merkys, Gediminas; Saparnis, Gintaras – Online Submission, 2006
Purpose: The paper deals with the study of students' computer literacy one of the purposes being demonstration the impact of the cognitive and non-cognitive personality traits (attention, verbal and non-verbal intelligence, emotional-motivational relationship with computer, learning strategies, etc.) on the quality of computer literacy.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Literacy, Psychometrics, Personality Traits