Considerations When Determining Similarity Between Traits and Skills: Raters and Item Types.

Recent research has examined similarities and differences between traits and skills. It may be the case that traits and skills can be measured interchangeably with one providing little to no incremental validity over the other. However, methodological limitations constrain our ability to draw firm conclusions.

Social and Emotional Skills Predict Postsecondary Enrollment and Retention.

Introduction: Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked to important life outcomes, many of which fall into the academic domain. For example, meta-analytic data show that the skill of Sustaining Effort is nearly or just as important for academic performance as intelligence. In a recent study with long-term tracking of high school students, those who came from schools with a strong emphasis on SE skill development were more likely to enroll in college within two years of high school graduation.

A Big Five-Based Multimethod Social and Emotional Skills Assessment: The Mosaic™ by ACT Social Emotional Learning Assessment.

A focus on implementing social and emotional (SE) learning into curricula continues to gain popularity in K-12 educational contexts at the policy and practitioner levels. As it continues to be elevated in educational discourse, it becomes increasingly clear that it is important to have reliable, validated measures of students' SE skills. Here we argue that framework and design are additional important considerations for the development and selection of SE skill assessments.

Multimethod Support for Using the Big Five Framework to Organize Social and Emotional Skills.

A challenge in the field of social and emotional learning is the lack of consensus regarding a framework to delineate key social and emotional skills (SE skills). Taking a conceptual approach, some have argued that the Big Five model from personality psychology offers a comprehensive framework to organize SE skills; however, little research has been done to empirically support this. In two studies-one using a factor analytic, data-driven approach, and one using an expert consensus approach-we provide multimethod evidence suggesting that there is a significant degree of overlap between SE skills and the Big Five, and we conclude that the Big Five can be used to organize SE skills.

Adjectives vs. Statements in Forced Choice and Likert Item Types: Which Is More Resistant to Impression Management in Personality Assessment?

Our objective was to compare individuals' ability to intentionally make a positive impression when responding to a Five-Factor Model personality measure under adjective vs. statement and forced choice vs. Likert conditions.

Conscientiousness in weight loss maintainers and regainers.

Objective: The role of personality in weight loss maintenance (WLM) is poorly understood. Although the personality trait of conscientiousness has been associated with health-promoting behaviors in general, no study has specifically evaluated the importance of conscientiousness for WLM. This study compared conscientiousness (both in aggregate and on the facet level) and control over healthy lifestyle behaviors (e.

Situational Judgment Tests as a method for measuring personality: Development and validity evidence for a test of Dependability.

Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are criterion valid low fidelity measures that have gained much popularity as predictors of job performance. A broad variety of SJTs have been studied, but SJTs measuring personality are still rare. Personality traits such as Conscientiousness are valid predictors of many educational, work and life-related outcomes and SJTs are less prone to faking than classical self-report measurements.

Emotional Intelligence Relates to Well-Being: Evidence from the Situational Judgment Test of Emotional Management.

Background: This research was conducted to examine whether people high in emotional intelligence (EI) have greater well-being than people low in EI.

Method: The Situational Test of Emotion Management, Scales of Psychological Well-being, and Day Reconstruction Method were completed by 131 college students.

Results: Responses to the Situational Test of Emotion Management were strongly related to eudaimonic well-being as measured by responses on the Scales of Psychological Well-being (r=.

Long ago it was meant to be: the interplay between time, construal, and fate beliefs.

Fate means that an event was meant to be, that is, predetermined by prior unseen forces. Most people believe in fate, which seems at odds with similarly pervasive beliefs that alternative past actions would have brought about different circumstances (i.e.