Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of personality (intellectual curiosity, conscientiousness … and negative emotionality) and approach to studying (deep, strategic and surface) on students’ learning …-related information behaviour in inquiry tasks. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 219 senior high school students …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop information behaviour profiles for nursing students, to help inform … interviews with 11 students were transcribed and analysed using an interpretative categorisation method that used dendrograms for … seeking were linked to learning styles, and then to personality traits to generate information seeking profiles. Integration …

students’ performance is related to personality style; and that scores achieved in multiple choice assessments are a useful … tolerance test, and group embedded figures test, were used to determine the personality construct of students. Regression …Using a sample of 103 first year business students at the Waikato Polytechnic in New Zealand, examines hypotheses that …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine gender differences in personality predictors of a specific form of … workplace aggression: counterproductive work behaviors directed at individuals (CWB‐I). Design/methodology/approach – Students … (FFM) personality traits and two circumplex personality traits (Calmnesss and Pleasantness), as well as a measure of CWB …