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Personality Characteristics Of Self Efficacy Essay

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Our study had many conclusions congruent with the findings found in our review of literature, but a portion of our research explored areas that the other studies did not. Self-efficacy was a factor studied in both Peterson (2009) and McLaughlin, et al., (2008) research studies. Although our research did not report self-efficacy scales, it did look at attributes related to self-efficacy, shown in Table 7, such as leadership, stress coping, and adaptation to change. These three factors each had a strong positive correlation with each other. However, similar to the findings of Peterson (2009), the data failed to show a significant correlation or relation to academic success (Peterson, 2009, p. 413). Our study also analyzed introverted personality characteristics compared to extraverted. Research has found lower scores associated with extraversion (McLaughlin et al., 2008, p. 218). In comparison, our data was inconclusive and insufficient enough to gain a thorough understanding of someone’s personality. Table 3 shows the majority of >3.5 GPA study individually or in a small group. This could be considered an introverted way of studying, but there is not enough evidence to say so without a doubt. Other personality questions asked got an evenly distributed answer response, therefore were not used for analyzing. Based on previous studies, personality can be seen as an important characteristic; however our instrument lacked in validity to support this theory. Lancia (2013)

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