This study investigated university female students’ (who perceived their stress levels as mild, moderate, or severe) scores on a stress inventory. Two hundred fifty-eight women responded to the Student-life Stress Inventory and reported their age. Instructors provided students’ semester course grades. Significant differences were found among the stress level groups on all inventory category sco...

Literature relating to personality and entrepreneurship focused largely on the personality characteristics of general entrepreneurs. The focus of a study done in South Africa was on personality characteristics and temperaments of potential Information and Communication Technology (ICT) entrepreneurs. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness and usefullness of using pers...

A series of four studies examined reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing. These studies involved 1) 32 male and 32 female university computing students, 2) 19 female computing professionals, 3) 33 schoolgirls, and 4) 22 Australian and 22 Asian university computing students. The studies identified misperceptions about the nature of computing careers as a major factor deterring...

This paper explores the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as the basis for defining the personality of an agent. The MBTI is a well-known psychological theory of human personality. In the MBTI model, four axes are defined to explain how humans perceive their environment, how they interact with others and how they make decisions based on these traits. The work described here presents...

A shift from a traditional to a progressive model of education has led to an increased interest in learners’ individual differences. The new paradigm is studentcentred, based on inclusiveness, cooperative learning, and encourages diversity. Furthermore, technology is seen as having the potential to enhance the capabilities of the learner and the teacher [1]. The interest in individual differenc...

psychological approach to literature is one of the approaches through which one can examine author’s mind and personality. since tārikh-e bayhaqi includes the main sequence of bayhaqi’s personal, social and professional events, one can read it as a sort of autobiographical text and through psychological analysis, discover many significant features of the author’s personality. the theoretical fr...

Despite a growing body of evidence linking personality to life-history variation and fitness, the behavioural mechanisms underlying these relationships remain poorly understood. One mechanism thought to play a key role is how individuals respond to risk. Relatively reactive and proactive (or shy and bold) personality types are expected to differ in how they manage the inherent trade-off between...

Understanding organisation at different social scales is crucial to learning how social processes play a role in sustainable natural resource management. Research has neglected the potential role that individual personality plays in decision making in natural resource management. In the past two decades natural resource management across rural Australia has increasingly come under the direct in...