University students overwhelmingly report goals to change at least one Big Five trait, but agreeableness may be the hardest trait to shift¶
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q2 i? Almost all university students reported goals to change at least one Big Five trait, with 89% wanting to increase agreeableness and 97% wanting to increase conscientiousness. → Hayley K. Jach 2023
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Hayley K. Jach 2023¶
Hayley K. Jach, Lisa Bardach, Kou Murayama. (2023). How Personality Matters for Education Research. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09807-4
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The review reports, citing Hudson and Roberts (2014), that "almost all students reported goals to change at least one Big Five personality trait", with printed percentages of 89% (agreeableness) and 97% (conscientiousness).
"Hudson and Roberts (2014) found that almost all students reported goals to change at least one Big Five personality trait and also found high agreement in wanting to change their traits in a socially desirable direction, from 89% wanting to increase in agreeableness up to 97% wanting to increase their conscientiousness"
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Related Claims¶
- Agreeableness is unexpectedly a weak risk factor for well-being decline in wartime students — related
- Conscientiousness shows the strongest links to SRL and robustly predicts academic performance even after accounting for cognitive ability — related
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University students overwhelmingly report goals to change at least one Big Five trait, but agreeableness may be the hardest trait to shift |
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University students overwhelmingly report goals to change at least one Big Five trait, but agreeableness may be the hardest trait to shift |
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