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Intelligence, General Knowledge and Personality as Predictors of Creativity
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Batey, Mark; Furnham, Adrian; Safiullina, Xeniya – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study sought to examine the contribution of fluid intelligence, general knowledge and Big Five personality traits in predicting four indices of creativity: Divergent Thinking (DT) fluency, Rated DT, Creative Achievement and Self-Rated creativity and a combined Total Creativity variable. When creativity was assessed by DT test, the consistent…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence, Creativity, Personality
Soft Skills in Higher Education: Importance and Improvement Ratings as a Function of Individual Differences and Academic Performance
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane; Bremner, Andrew J.; Greven, Corina; Furnham, Adrian – Educational Psychology, 2010
Three UK studies on the relationship between a purpose-built instrument to assess the importance and development of 15 "soft skills" are reported. "Study 1" (N = 444) identified strong latent components underlying these soft skills, such that differences "between-skills" were over-shadowed by differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
Exploring the Relationships between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Objective Socio-Emotional Outcomes in Childhood
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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
Typical Intellectual Engagement as a Byproduct of Openness, Learning Approaches, and Self-Assessed Intelligence
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Arteche, Adriane; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Ackerman, Phillip; Furnham, Adrian – Educational Psychology, 2009
Students (n = 328) from US and UK universities completed four self-report measures related to intellectual competence: typical intellectual engagement (TIE), openness to experience, self-assessed intelligence (SAI), and learning approaches. Confirmatory data reduction was used to examine the structure of TIE and supported five major factors:…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Motivation, Information Seeking, Teaching Methods
Personality and Approaches to Learning Predict Preference for Different Teaching Methods
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian; Lewis, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
A total of 221 (111 female and 110 male) British Medical students completed the NEO-FFI personality inventory [Costa, P. T., Jr., and McCrae, R. R. (1992). "Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual." Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.], an abbreviated version of Biggs'…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Medical Students, Educational Research, Psychological Evaluation