The relationships among personality traits, thinking styles and academic achievement of junior high school students

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 96 === The main purposes of this study were to explore the relationships among variables of peasonality traits, thinking styles and academic achievement of junior high school students. The subjects of 767 junior high school students in central Taiwan completed a set of...

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Main Author: 林正源
Other Authors: 黃德祥
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92726228406829058706
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Summary:碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 96 === The main purposes of this study were to explore the relationships among variables of peasonality traits, thinking styles and academic achievement of junior high school students. The subjects of 767 junior high school students in central Taiwan completed a set of instruments used included “The Personality Traits Inventory”and ”The Thinking Styles Inventory”. The statistical methods used to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Pearson Product-moment Correlation, Stepwise Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling. The main finding wereas follows: 1.There were significant differences in executive, judicial, global, monarchic, hierarchic and external of thinking styles based on gender level, and no significant differences in legislative, local, liberal, conservative, oligarchic, anarchic and internal. 2.There were significant differences in legislative, local, hierarchic and internal of thinking styles based on grade level, and no significant differences in executive, judicial, global, liberal, conservative, monarchic, oligarchic, anarchic and external. 3.There were no significant interaction effects in gender or grade level of junior high school students regarding personality traits and thinking styles. 4.Junior high school students’academic achievement could be predicted by openness personality, judicial thinking style, extraversion personality, monarchic thinking style, conscientiousness personality, global, anarchic, legislative, executive and oligarchic thinking style. 5.The theoretical model constructed in the study could explain the relationship among main variable tested by AMOS. Finally, some suggestions for schools, teachers, counselors, and further study were made according to the findings.