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Direct linkZhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study explores how psychosocial development and personality traits are related. In particular, the study investigates the predictive power of the successful resolution of the Eriksonian psychosocial crises for the Big Five personality traits beyond age and gender. Four hundred university students in mainland China responded to the Measures of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Development, Foreign Countries, Personality
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The field of intellectual styles is one that has been constantly searching for its identity within the larger context of literatures such as education, psychology, and business and the levels of interest in the notion of styles have waxed and waned in the past seven decades. There has been, however, a steady growth in the amount of styles research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Intellectual Disciplines, Research, Self Control
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The principal objective of this research is to ascertain if the "research-teaching dichotomy" as revealed in the relationship between conceptions of effective teachers and teaching styles among Han Chinese academics can be found among Tibetan academics. As a preliminary objective, this research examines the appropriateness of the Effective Teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
This study examines the construct of hardiness with the Big Five personality traits among 362 Chinese university students. Participants in the study responded to the Dispositional Hardiness Scale (Bartone, Ursano, Wright, & Ingraham, 1989) and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Results indicate that personality traits…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality, Foreign Countries, College Students
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Much theorization and research have been done independently on thinking styles and psychosocial development. The primary objective of this research was to further investigate the predictive power of thinking styles for psychosocial development through replicating Zhang and He's (in press) study of Chinese university students in Shanghai, mainland…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The present study investigates the predictive power of conceptions of effective teachers for teaching styles. Ninety-three academic staff from two large comprehensive universities in the People's Republic of China responded to The Effective Teacher Inventory [Zhang, L.F. (2003). The effective teacher inventory. Unpublished test, The University of…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Zhang, Li-fang; Higgins, Paul – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
The present study examines the predictive power of socialization variables for thinking styles among adults in the workplace. One hundred and seventeen managerial personnel (aged between 18 and 55 years) in England responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and to questions concerning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Socialization, Foreign Countries, Prediction
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the roles of university students' cognitive distortions in their sense of autonomy. One hundred and three third-year university students from Shanghai, The People's Republic of China, responded to the Cognitive Distortion Scales [Briere, J. (2000). "Cognitive Distortion Scales: Professional manual". Lutz,…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Psychiatry, Foreign Countries, Psychology
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
This study examines the role of students' thinking styles in their knowledge and use of as well as in their attitudes towards the use of computing and information technology (CIT) in education. One hundred and five students from a large university in Texas responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory and to a brief measure of their attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computers, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
