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Zachary Cohen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Every year roughly 50% of graduate students drop out of doctoral programs (Farkas, 2018). Per Farkas (2018), the top seven reasons for this include time management difficulties, conflicts with a supervisor, the student's thesis not having a "story," exhaustion or burnout, problems writing up theses (one of the main problems described is…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Student Satisfaction, Graduate Students
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Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Personality is the strongest and most consistent cross-sectional predictor of high subjective well-being. Less predictive economic factors, such as higher income or improved job status, are often the focus of applied subjective well-being research due to a perception that they can change whereas personality cannot. As such there has been limited…
Descriptors: Well Being, Personality Measures, Personality Change, Personality