Browsing by Subject "personality"
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(2015-08-12)Organisms vary at the individual and population level in many ecologically relevant traits. This study documents and quantifies colony-level variation in ecologically important behaviors of a widespread invasive social ...
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(2014-05-07)This dissertation analyzes partisanship in America. I lay out a new theory of partisanship that shows that how strongly an American identifies with the Democrats or Republicans is due to how likely he or she is to take ...
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(2010-07-14)Much research has been conducted on the topic of the construct-related validity of assessment centers, however a definitive conclusion has yet to be drawn. The central question of this debate is whether assessment centers ...
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(2009-05-15)This study explored the relationships among high school students‘ general interests, reading interests, and personality dimensions. Two hundred and fifty one 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in a rural school ...
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(2016-12-05)Educators and students struggle with engagement in many educational settings and at all levels. A lack of engagement has been reported to contribute to an ever-widening gap between how students develop knowledge, skills, ...
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(2015-08-07)Faking on personality tests in selection contexts remains a concern for organizations and researchers. Conditional reasoning tests (CRTs) are purported to predict construct-related outcomes and circumvent the faking issue ...
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(2012-10-19)One important research topic in team research concerns how team composition (i.e., the configuration of team member attributes such as personality factors) affects team effectiveness. To date, researchers have almost ...
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(2014-11-26)This paper investigates the relationship between a person’s level of religiosity, their ability to tolerate outsiders to their faith and their level of openness-to-experience (a big five personality trait). This relationship ...
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(2010-10-12)The use of unproctored internet-based testing for employee selection is widespread. Although this mode of testing has advantages over onsite testing, researchers and practitioners continue to be concerned about potential ...
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(2012-04-23)Mate choice behavior underlies many significant phenomena in biology including sexual conflict, selection, hybridization and speciation. Members of the genus Xiphophorus provide an excellent model for studying these processes ...
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(2015-11-12)Research by Swami (2015) indicates that aesthetic stimuli may improve our understanding of individual differences in artistic preferences. However, those findings were exploratory and more comprehensive measures of individual ...
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(2010-10-12)This study examined the role of personality variables in the relationship between subjective well-being and loss of relationships through death or parental divorce. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of ...
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(2017-05-02)Perceived personality consistency is the degree to which an individual believes their personality is reliable across situations. Perceived personality consistency may contribute to the personality variability literature ...
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(2014-12-08)This research study will investigate if specific personality characteristics predict physical or verbal aggression in an individual. It is significant because it uses common personality traits to predict excessive aggressive ...
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(2015-08-11)Sport psychology research relies on advancements in the measurement of psychological resilience to explore healthy and adaptive responses to conditions that present adversity among student athletes. This study examined ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Traitedness has been described as the âÂÂthe degree to which a particular trait structure is approximated in a given personâ (Tellegen, p. 28, 1991) and has been hypothesized as one explanation for findings of weak ...
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(2019-11-07)This thesis reviews literature focused on the utilization of personality inventories in organizations. The theories and models of personality psychology can be applied by industrial-organizational psychologists to understand ...
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(2020-07-10)Third Culture Kids (TCKs) are thought to face unique challenges and have distinctive strengths that follow them into their adult years. While the number of publications related to TCKs has increased greatly over the past ...
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(2016-08-08)Challenging the prior research viewing employees as passive beings who respond to work-family conflict, this dissertation studies employees as active agents who shape their experience of work-family conflict and enrichment ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)As the average age of the population in the United States gets older each year, the problem of depression has been recognized as a chronic problem that affects the quality of life and mental health of many of our nation's ...