{"title":"Exploring the Relations Between Personality, Implicit Theories, and Subjective Well-Being Among High-Ability Undergraduate Students","authors":"Sakhavat Mammadov, T. Ward","doi":"10.1177/00169862221107862","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Personality plays a powerful role in predicting how individuals react to life events and evaluate their overall well-being. Similarly, implicit beliefs of ability determine the ways individuals react to experiences of success and failure. The present article reports the findings from two studies on the relationships between personality, implicit theories of ability, and subjective well-being among high-ability university students. Study 1 employed a variable-centered approach to examine well-being in relation to individual differences in Big Five personality traits and implicit theories. Study 2 moved beyond a variable-oriented focus to explore personality profiles among another (but similar) sample of high-ability adolescents through a person-centered analytic approach and identify associations of the emerging profiles with well-being and implicit theories. Findings were discussed in light of replicable personality prototypes and in relationship to previous research with high-ability students.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Gifted Child Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862221107862","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SPECIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Personality plays a powerful role in predicting how individuals react to life events and evaluate their overall well-being. Similarly, implicit beliefs of ability determine the ways individuals react to experiences of success and failure. The present article reports the findings from two studies on the relationships between personality, implicit theories of ability, and subjective well-being among high-ability university students. Study 1 employed a variable-centered approach to examine well-being in relation to individual differences in Big Five personality traits and implicit theories. Study 2 moved beyond a variable-oriented focus to explore personality profiles among another (but similar) sample of high-ability adolescents through a person-centered analytic approach and identify associations of the emerging profiles with well-being and implicit theories. Findings were discussed in light of replicable personality prototypes and in relationship to previous research with high-ability students.
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Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) is the official journal of the National Association for Gifted Children. As a leading journal in the field, GCQ publishes original scholarly reviews of the literature and quantitative or qualitative research studies. GCQ welcomes manuscripts offering new or creative insights about giftedness and talent development in the context of the school, the home, and the wider society. Manuscripts that explore policy and policy implications are also welcome. Additionally, GCQ reviews selected books relevant to the field, with an emphasis on scholarly texts or text with policy implications, and publishes reviews, essay reviews, and critiques.