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The Effects of Gender and Personality on Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals

Gargalianou, Vasiliki; Muehlfeld, Katrin; Urbig, Diemo; … - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2015

higher levels of FLA. The association between gender and FLA, however, is a reflection of gender differences in personality …; personality mediates most of this relationship. Individuals who are highly emotional or conscientious—dimensions for which males … stronger for women; that is, gender also acts as moderator to the personality-FLA relationship. …

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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Department of Economics, Management School - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … unobservables that determine test scores and subjectsâ€™ choices and the unobservables that influence personality.<br/> …

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Blood-type distribution

Kim, Beom Jun; Myeong Lee, Dong; Hun Lee, Sung; Gim, Wan-Suk - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 373 (2007) C, pp. 533-540

We statistically verify the Hardy–Weinberg principle in genetics by investigating the independence of ABO-blood types of married couples. The allelic frequencies derived from the phenotypic frequencies in ethnic groups via the Hardy–Weinberg principle are used to define a genetic distance...

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Management of the personality development: today „I” with them! – tomorrow „we” with me! and so on...

DELIU, Angela - In: Alma Mater University journal 6 (2013) 1, pp. 5-10

their immediate qualification. Also, there is revealed the importance and necessity of the personality and the specialist … formation, the need for new levels of qualification. In this regard, steps on the development of personality and tomorrow …

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Personality Preferences in Laboratory Economics Experiments

Shupp, Robert; Swope, Kurtis J.; Cadigan, John; … - Department of Economics, Ball State University - 2005

, an ultimatum game, a trust game, or a prisoner’s dilemma game. We find limited support for the importance of personality … type for explaining subjects’ decisions. With controls for personality preferences, we find little evidence of behavioral …

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Cognitive (Ir)reflection: New Experimental Evidence

Herrero, Carlos Cueva; Kortajarene, Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2015

We study whether cognitive ability explains choices in a wide variety of behavioral tasks, including riskand social preferences, by collecting evidence from almost 1,200 subjects across eight experimentalprojects. Since Frederick (2005)'s Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has been administered to...

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Numinosity and Adaptation to Stress: The Role of Religiosity, Spirituality and Religious Coping in Adaptation to Significant Life Events

Swisher, Thomas K. - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 3 (2015) 2, pp. 71-78

construct called personality. Using scores from instruments measuring the above referenced domains from participants who had … elucidates the contributions made by numinous constructs (above that of personality) to one¡¯s adaptation to stress. Results … to stress over personality. This suggests that these constructs are important considerations for counselors and their …

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ГУМАНИТАРИЗАЦИЯ ЕСТЕСТВЕННО-НАУЧНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ КАК СРЕДСТВО ЕГО ГУМАНИЗАЦИИ

СУХАНОВА В.К.; ПЛОТНИКОВА О.В. - In: Известия Дальневосточного … (2009) 3, pp. 72-78

Обосновывается необходимость гуманизации образования, рассматривается взаимосвязь гуманизации, гуманитаризации и профессионализации, выделяются некоторые...

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Are Happy Youth Also Satisfied Adults? An Analysis of the Impact of Childhood Factors on Adult Life Satisfaction

Jewell, Sarah; Kambhampati, Uma - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 2, pp. 543-567

lifetime and also because there is a persistence in personality effects. To test this link, we estimate a model of happiness … personality effects amongst young people. These variables are then included in the adult life satisfaction model. The model is … influencing adult life satisfaction significantly, we also find that the youthful personality trait for happiness has a larger …

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Impact of Individual Personality on Turnover Intention

Jeswani, Saket; Dave, Sumita - In: Management and Labour Studies 37 (2012) 3, pp. 253-265

The study is conducted to examine the main effects of personality of faculty members of technical educational … institutes of India on their turnover intentions. Five antecedents of personality were identified using Personality Big …-Five Factors (Goldberg, 1981). 13-item instrument was generated using Turnover Intention Scale and Ten-Item Personality Inventory …

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