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Kostagiolas, Petros; Lavranos, Charilaos; Martzoukou, Konstantina; Papadatos, Joseph – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2017
Introduction: This paper explores the relationship between musicians' information seeking behaviour and their personality traits within the context of musical creativity. Although previous research has addressed different socio-technological and behavioral aspects of music information seeking, the role of personality characteristics around…
Descriptors: Personality, Musicians, Information Seeking, Creativity
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Semsek, Önder; Mirzeoglu, Nevzat; Çoknaz, Hakki – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Aim of the study is to investigate human rights attitudes in sport among the students who are studying physical education and coaching in Turkey. The research method of this study was survey. 232 physical education students (116 male and 116 female) and 200 coaching students (141 male and 59 female) voluntarily participated in this study. Data was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, College Students, Physical Education
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Patterson, Fiona; Zibarras, Lara Dawn – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
The ability to innovate is an important requirement in many organisations. Despite this pressing need, few selection systems in healthcare focus on identifying the potential for creativity and innovation and so this area has been vastly under-researched. As a first step towards understanding how we might select for creativity and innovation, this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Physicians
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Barczyk, Casimir C.; Duncan, Doris G. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
The impact of personality type on students' sense of classroom connectedness was examined in a study of university-level business courses that used Facebook to enhance classroom learning. The study was conducted using an independent measures static group comparison research design. Nearly 600 students registered in six different business courses…
Descriptors: Social Media, Personality Traits, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Navidinia, Hossein; Beidokhti, Zeinab; Hekmati, Nargess – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
This study aims to investigate the predictive power of personality traits for EFL students' preference for isolated or integrated form-focused instruction (FFI). Participants were 160 Iranian EFL university students. Results indicated that students' personality traits, as measured by Costa and McCrae (Revised NEO Personality inventory (NEO-PI-R)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Warrington, Cartmell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this study, the Big Five factor model of personality traits theory was tested for its ability to predict or explain Employee Information Security Behavior (EISB), when Generational Cohort (GCOHORT) moderated the relationship between the five factors of personality and EISB. The independent variables (IVs) Extraversion, Agreeableness,…
Descriptors: Information Security, Personality Traits, Generational Differences, Cohort Analysis
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Casas, José A.; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario; Del Rey, Rosario – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Background: The bullying phenomenon has serious consequences for those that are involved. In order to find more effective ways to eradicate it from the schools, more research is needed. In this context, teacher management and emotional intelligence (EI) are shown to be relevant keys to consider. Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the ways…
Descriptors: Bullying, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Intelligence, Aggression
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Alperovich, Valeriya – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The images of "enemies" and "friends" remain in the focus of attention due to escalating discriminatory practices towards communication partners from different groups that one tends to ascribe negative features based on various stereotypes, social attitudes and representations. In this paper, the problem of metaphorical and…
Descriptors: Social Discrimination, Speech Communication, Antisocial Behavior, Social Bias
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Farag, Magdy S.; Elias, Rafik Z. – Accounting Education, 2016
Professional skepticism is an essential component of every successful audit. Research in psychology identified the trait professional skepticism as an enduring personality construct. The current study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality characteristics and accounting students' trait professional skepticism and their level of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Socialization, Correlation, Personality Traits
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Mouton, Bénédicte; Loop, Laurie; Stievenart, Marie; Roskam, Isabelle – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
This study investigates the hypothesis of a child differential sensitivity to parenting improvement. One hundred and fourteen parents of preschoolers participated in two parenting micro-trials aiming to increase parental self-efficacy in view of improving child behavior. The first micro-trial took place in a short-term laboratory experiment; the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Self Efficacy
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Al-Mahasneh, Ruba – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
The objective of this study was to identify the role of teachers in founding an attractive environment for developing the creative thinking, among the students of the basic stage in the schools of Tafilah Governorate. The researcher applied the descriptive statistical method, and developed a questionnaire consisting of (45) items, divided into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Educational Environment, Creative Thinking
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Shahbazzadeh, Somayeh; Beliad, Mohammad Reza – International Education Studies, 2017
This study investigates the mediatory role of exercise self-regulation role in the relationship between personality traits and anger management among athletes. The statistical population of this study includes all athlete students of Shar-e Ghods College, among which 260 people were selected as sample using random sampling method. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Self Control, Scores, Path Analysis
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Wang, Lixia; Xu, Xiaobo; Wang, Qing; Healey, Grace; Su, Liang; Pang, Weiguo – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Schizophrenia and schizotypy have been often associated with above average creativity; however, empirical studies on the relationship between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and enhanced creativity generated inconsistent results. This research investigates if the association between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and creative potential levels…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Traits, Schizophrenia, Creativity
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Deng, Shengli; Lin, Yanqing; Liu, Yong; Chen, Xiaoyu; Li, Hongxiu – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2017
Introduction: Personality and trust have been found to be important precursors of information-sharing behaviour, but little is known about how these factors interact with each other in shaping information-sharing behaviour. By integrating both trust and user personality into a unified research framework, this study examines how trust mediates the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Media, Social Networks, Structural Equation Models
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Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Morales, Santiago; LoBue, Vanessa; Taber-Thomas, Bradley C.; Allen, Elizabeth K.; Brown, Kayla M.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study examined the relations between individual differences in attention to emotion faces and temperamental negative affect across the first 2 years of life. Infant studies have noted a normative pattern of preferential attention to salient cues, particularly angry faces. A parallel literature suggests that elevated attention bias to…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Attention, Emotional Response, Affective Behavior
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