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Fatima, Irum; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed; Pathan, Zahid Hussain; Memon, Ubedullah – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In learning English as a foreign language (EFL), classroom is a primary source where learners find opportunities to make communication in the English language and enhance their L2 WTC and L2 communicative abilities. Keeping in view the pivotal importance of classroom environment in shaping EFL learners' WTC, the present research unravels the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Anxiety, Speech Communication, Extraversion Introversion
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Rodas, Naomi V.; Blacher, Jan; Baker, Bruce L. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Introduction: We examined the development of anxiety in youth with or without intellectual disabilities (ID). We also examined the effects of child delay status, temperament, ethnicity, and negative parenting on anxiety symptom trajectory. Method: Participants were 177 families in (blinded). We employed latent growth curve modeling to examine the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Intellectual Disability, Children
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Özdemir, Gökhan; Dalkiran, Esra – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This study, with the aim of identifying the predictive power of the five-factor personality traits of music teacher candidates on individual instrument performance anxiety, was designed according to the relational screening model. The study population was students attending the Music Education branch of Fine Arts Education Departments in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictive Validity, Anxiety, Musical Instruments
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Kaur, Ravneet – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: Social anxiety is a persistent, intense and chronic fear of being negatively judged by others as well as by themselves and being embarrassed by one's own actions. Attributional styles is known as the way an individual explains positive and negative events in life and it has an important bearing on her well being, motivation and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Self Control, Foreign Countries
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Buangam, Poonsak; Alexander, Saowanee T.; Phannikul, Duangdao – rEFLections, 2018
This paper reports on case study examining relationships between English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students' self-perceived pronunciation ability and their performance in an advanced pronunciation course at a Northeastern university in Thailand. The participants were 10 students randomly selected from a pool of 29 students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Communicative Competence (Languages), Pronunciation, Student Attitudes
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Milosavljevic, Bosiljka; Carter Leno, Virginia; Simonoff, Emily; Baird, Gillian; Pickles, Andrew; Jones, Catherine R.; Erskine, Catherine; Charman, Tony; Happé, Francesca – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Alexithymia is a personality trait frequently found in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and has been linked to impairments in emotion recognition and empathy. The presentation of alexithymia within ASD at younger ages remains unexplored, and was examined in the present study. Alexithymia rates were significantly elevated in ASD (55%;…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personality Traits, Emotional Response
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Wong, Kristyn; Stacks, Ann M.; Rosenblum, Katherine L.; Muzik, Maria – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study assessed the links between infant negative affect, parental reflective functioning (RF), and toddler behavior problems in a sample of 84 women and their infants. Mothers provided self-report demographic data and completed the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised during a home visit when the infant was 7 months old. They also completed…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship
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Lee, Ju Seong; Lee, Kilryoung – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This quantitative study examines whether and to what extent affective factors (i.e. motivation, self-confidence, risk-taking, L2 speaking anxiety, and grit) and virtual intercultural experiences are linked to willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) in in-class, out-of-class, and digital settings. Participants included 176 Korean…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Self Esteem, Risk, Second Language Learning
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Cranab, A. Linsey; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2015
Naturally humans strive to do their work. But when it exceeds a limit, it becomes neurotic and also not healthy perfectionism. Perfectionism is always not pleasurable, and people typically confuse their talents and capabilities with their perfectionism. In fact, perfectionism interferes with a person's ability to do well (Hummel, 2000). This paper…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Risk, Self Destructive Behavior, Standards
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Harrison, Neil; Agnew, Steve – Higher Education Quarterly, 2016
This study examines the construction of debt attitudes among 439 first-year undergraduates in England and New Zealand. It works from a conceptual model that predicts that attitudes will be partly determined by a range of social factors, mediated through personality and 'financial literacy'. Path analysis is used to explore this model. The proposed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Debt (Financial), College Freshmen, Socioeconomic Influences
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Smedbøl, Trine; Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild; Skaug, Silje – College Student Journal, 2016
The present study explores the nature of Overcommitment (OC) in relation to Satisfaction With Life (SWL) in students. A total of 701 Norwegian students participated by answering a questionnaire including measurements of the previously validated instruments for OC and SWL, volunteer work, stress and several other individual differences. Exploratory…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Mary, Hlatshwako Thuleleni; Makondo, Davison; Bhebhe, Sithulisiwe – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2018
Adolescent boys with conduct disorder in Manzini secondary schools exhibit undesirable behaviour which disrupts the general moral fibre in the schools and the community in general. The purpose of this study was to explore lived experiences of adolescent boys with conduct disorder in Manzini secondary schools of the Kingdom of ESwatini. This study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Secondary School Students, Behavior Disorders
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Zlatkova-Doncheva, Katerina I. – World Journal of Education, 2019
The present study examines language impact on anxiety in at-risk children deprived of parental care. Bulgarian children without parents (n=40) divided into 3 age groups (aged 7-10; aged 11-14; and aged 15-17) embed intervention accomplished by four volunteers using four interaction strategies: normal voice and positive language; high tone and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, At Risk Persons, Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Smith, Kylie A.; Iverach, Lisa; O'Brian, Susan; Mensah, Fiona; Kefalianos, Elaina; Hearne, Anna; Reilly, Sheena – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: To examine if a community sample of 11-year-old children with persistent stuttering have higher anxiety than children who have recovered from stuttering and nonstuttering controls. Method: Participants in a community cohort study were categorized into 3 groups: (a) those with persistent stuttering, (b) those with recovered stuttering, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Stuttering, Regression (Statistics), Autism
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Kralova, Zdena; Tirpakova, Anna; Skorvagova, Eva – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
This paper focuses on the link between 16 primary and 5 global personality factors and the Foreign Language Pronunciation Anxiety of 63 Slovak learners of English, who underwent a 24-week psycho-social training (in the experimental group) combined with English pronunciation training (both in the control and experimental group). Data was collected…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation
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