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Holliman, Andrew; Cheng, Feifei; Waldeck, Daniel – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
The first year of boarding senior high school marks a period of great change for students. The extent to which students are able to adjust to successfully navigate this change (adaptability) likely has an impact on their psychological wellbeing. It has also been theorized that students' personality traits and perceived social support may impact…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Boarding Schools, High School Students
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Ye, Lin; Zhu, Gu; Martin, Nick; Liu, Yangyang – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
The aim of the present study was to examine the cross-cultural differences in the relationship between personality traits and neurasthenia across early adolescence. The participants were from Australia and China. Adolescents' personality was measured by the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and neurasthenia was measured by the Somatic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Personality Traits
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Bordovskaia, Nina V.; Anderson, Charles; Bochkina, Natalia; Petanova, Elena I. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This article presents a comparative study of the personal adaptive capabilities of Chinese students studying in Chinese, British and Russian universities. The study involved 224 Chinese first-year students who formed 3 groups: Group 1, 96 first-year students studying in China; Group 2, 100 Chinese first-year students studying in Russia; Group 3,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Cross Cultural Studies, Personality Measures
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Zhang, 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
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Zhang, Li-Fang – Educational Psychology, 2012
The primary objective of this study was to examine the predictive power of personality traits for occupational stress among Chinese university academics. Two hundred and forty-six participants responded to the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised. Results indicated that the strongest predictor for occupational…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Personality Traits, Personality, Coping
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Chen, Chen; Zhang, Li-Fang – Educational Psychology, 2011
Temperament and personality have been presumed to affect achievement goals based on the hierarchical model of achievement motivation. This research investigated the relationships of temperament dimensions and the Big Five personality traits to achievement goals based on the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework among 775 Chinese adolescent students.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Personality
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2021, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year has been converted into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology