Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?

Schurer, Stefanie; New, Sonja C. de; Leung, Felix W.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2575053

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“…This is inseparable from the role of universities. According to Schurer et al (2015), university education allows an individual to have a higher awareness. Vasilescu et al (2010) stated that the function of a university is to not only issue a diploma but also help their students find directions and ways of thinking that not only focus on the interests of individuals but also pay attention to the interests of the society.…”

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“…Universities clearly have the ability to shape one's personality through continuous treatment in daily routine activities for three to five years of study. Then, Schurer et al 's (2015) results show that university education makes a person more open to experience, has higher awareness, is able to consider new experiences and can also face work pressure in the long run. Based on this, the authors assume that students will bring social values obtained during their study into their workplaces through their character.…”

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Constructing CSR student self-consciousness through university social responsibility implementation: evidence in Indonesia

Agustina

Meyliana

Rasni

2022

SRJ

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Purpose The role of higher education institutions is paramount in creating social and cultural conditions for sustainability. Several studies show universities play an important role in promoting public understanding and awareness about sustainability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the application of university social responsibility (USR) on green and nongreen campuses and how it affects the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of students' self-consciousness (SSC), especially in accounting undergraduate programs by looking at how the undergraduate programs shape their curriculum and can build student awareness related to CSR. Design/methodology/approach A total of 704 accounting undergraduate programs students from eight different universities in Indonesia were surveyed to test the CSR SSC. Eight participating universities were included in the green campus based on Universitas Indonesia Green Metric (UI GreenMetric) and nongreen campus. Each university was analyzed regarding the application of USR. Findings The results of this study show that universities included in the green campus at the UI GreenMetric do not necessarily have a higher USR than the nongreen campus. Overall, there is evidence that graduates from universities with high USR implementation have better CSR SSC than graduates from universities with low USR implementation. Furthermore, the findings of this study show that there is a high value of ethic and CSR knowledge coming from university students with high USR implementation but not so with character. The findings show the same results from students between the two university groups. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first attempt to examine the effect of USR implementation on CSR SSC in Indonesia, by putting students’ CSR knowledge as a part of CSR SSC.

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Constructing CSR student self-consciousness through university social responsibility implementation: evidence in Indonesia

Agustina

Meyliana

Rasni

2022

SRJ

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“…A few studies have also specifically investigated the relationship between occupational experiences and personality (Kohn and Schooler, 1982;Roberts, Caspi and Moffitt, 2003;Peter, 2016), and between educational pathways and personality (Lüdtke et al, 2011;Leikas and Salmela-Aro, 2015;Schurer, Kassenboehmer and Leung, 2015). Roberts, Caspi and Moffitt (2003), for example, report that personality traits measured at age 18 can predict certain self-reported work outcomes over an eight-year period-and that these outcomes cause corresponding changes in the same personality traits that predicted them in the first place.…”

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The stability of personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood

Elkins

Kassenboehmer

Schurer

2017

Journal of Economic Psychology

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“…In fact, prior longitudinal analysis on state-wide personality traits showed that states' big-5 personality ranks remained unchanged in the last 20 years 25 . Given such level of "stability" and clustering, these traits are likely to make combating misinformation more difficult (for instance, it would be difficult to compel "unconscientious personalities" to be more conscientious 57 ).…”

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The role of the Big Geographic Sort in the circulation of misinformation among U.S. Reddit users

Bozarth¹,

Quercia²,

Capra³

et al. 2022

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Past research has attributed the online circulation of misinformation to two main factors -individual characteristics (e.g., a person's information literacy) and social media effects (e.g., algorithm-mediated information diffusion) -and has overlooked a third one: the critical mass created by the offline self-segregation of Americans into like-minded geographical regions such as states (a phenomenon called 'The Big Sort'). We hypothesized that this latter factor matters for the online spreading of misinformation not least because online interactions, despite having the potential of being global, end up being localized: interaction probability is known to rapidly decay with distance. Upon analysis of more than 8M Reddit comments containing news links spanning four years, from January 2016 to December 2019, we found that Reddit did not work as an 'hype machine' for misinformation (as opposed to what previous work reported for other platforms, circulation was not mainly caused by platform-facilitated network effects) but worked as a supply-and-demand system: misinformation news items scaled linearly with the number of users in each state (with a scaling exponent β ≈ 1, and a goodness of fit R 2 ≈ 0.95). Furthermore, deviations from such a universal pattern were best explained by state-level personality and cultural factors (R 2 ≈ {0.12, 0.39}), rather than socioeconomic conditions (R 2 ≈ {0.15, 0.29}) or, as one would expect, political characteristics (R 2 ≈ {0.06, 0.21}). Higher-than-expected circulation of any type of news (including reputable news) was found in states characterised by residents who tend to be less diligent in terms of their personality (low in conscientiousness) and by loose cultures understating the importance of adherence to norms (low in cultural tightness). Interestingly, the combination of those factors with low levels of education was then associated with the particular circulation of misinformation. These results suggest that online interactions are geographically bounded and, as such, circulation of misinformation cannot be studied purely as an Internet phenomenon but should be grounded into a user's offline cultural environment, which has become increasingly segregated over the decades, and is admittedly hard to change.

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Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Constructing CSR student self-consciousness through university social responsibility implementation: evidence in Indonesia

Constructing CSR student self-consciousness through university social responsibility implementation: evidence in Indonesia

The stability of personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood

The role of the Big Geographic Sort in the circulation of misinformation among U.S. Reddit users

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