Introduction: The assessment of person-environment congruence is important in vocational and career guidance. The aims of this study were to obtain descriptive statistics for the congruence between realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC) vocational interests and occupational aspirations, and to relate…

Burnout continues to be apparent among teachers and often leads to increased health care costs, absenteeism, and turnover rates. Burnout stems from unmanaged stress, which is the result of teachers' response to challenges in the workplace. The purpose of this cross-sectional design study was to examine the relationship between mindfulness…

Character measurement has become increasingly relevant and needed in recent years due to its significant impact on an individual's success in various aspects of life. However, existing methods of character measurement such as self-assessment, peer assessment, and observation, still have many limitations. The Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is a…

The directionality and longitudinal course between perfectionism and academic achievement throughout adolescence remains unclear as most studies rely on cross-sectional or short-term data and many examine these associations in university students who do not represent the full spectrum of learners. Moreover, most studies are hampered by their…

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between high school students' emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties (EPCD), perception of social support and basic psychological needs. The predictive effect of social support perception and basic psychological needs on EPCD will also be examined. In addition, it…

The main objective of this study was to explore the associations between character strengths and internalising and externalising problems. One thousand, one hundred thirty-eight adolescents, completed the 96-item VIA Inventory of Strengths for Youth, Youth Self Report, and Brief Symptom Inventory. Using latent class analysis, we extracted six…

Past research has found that an individual's academic success, including success in English language learning, can be predicted by a person's 'grit'. Grit is a personality trait defined as the combination of perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. Other than grit, learner engagement is another factor considered to be highly related to…

This work evaluated the cross-sectional and longitudinal (i.e., over four months) impact of attachment to mother, father, and peers on three psychopathic traits (i.e., grandiose-manipulative, callous-unemotional, and impulsive-irresponsible) using a community adolescent sample, and if that impact was differentiated by gender. Though there is…

The study was realized to examine the personality traits and smartphone addiction levels of high school students. The research group consists of totally 239 students, including 139 males and 100 females studying in Sports High School, Anatolian High School and Vocational High School in Sanliurfa during the "2019-2020" academic years.…

The character strengths and virtues approach is a classification system to examine the characteristics of good character in terms of twenty-four strengths and six virtues. This study was designed to investigate the psychometric properties regarding the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the VIA-Youth. A tool developed to evaluate…

This research intended to further our understanding of the construct grit, defined as maintaining persistence and passion when pursuing long-term goals (Duckworth et al., 2007). The study had 2 aims: first to confirm a correlation between the construct of grit and an individual's attachment style and second, to examine this relationship in high…

With a growing interest in well-being as an outcome of schooling, there is an increased need for research on how to enable it in students' academic lives. This study examined personality and coping strategies as predictors of students' well-being outcomes at school using structural equation modelling. Students (N = 328) completed measures of…

The main purpose of this study was to examine whether or not assertiveness predicted adjustment to university by determining university students' adjustment levels to university. The study was conducted with first-year students who were attending a university in Central Anatolia in 2018. A total of 438 students, 322 females and 116 males,…

This research aims at revealing whether or not footballers' anger expression styles show an alteration in terms of different variables. The descriptive method which is one of the quantitative research methods was adopted as the research model. Research group consists of 154 footballers who play in 8 teams from 12 teams in fifth-group in the…

Purpose: This study aims to determine the predictive strength of personality traits based on the five-factor theory on the level of career maturity Research Methods: The sample of the study included a total of 429 high school students, 248 females (57.8%) and 181 males (42.2%). The study utilized the "Career Maturity Scale" to determine…