Personality in learning and education: a review

Personality, learning, and the mediating role of epistemic curiosity: A case of continuing education in medical physicians

“…In training programs designed for pilots, emotional stability was found to predict learning performance (Herold et al, 2002). Raad and Schouwenburg (1996) found a strong association between emotional stability and learning such that neurotics benefitted the least from learning activities (Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham, 2003a,b;Studer-Luethi et al, 2012). Accordingly, we hypothesized:…”

The effects of neuroticism on pair programming

“…Other than the conscientiousness trait, de Raad and Schouwenberg [45] proposed that the two other significant personality traits which are educationally important and relevant for higher education are neuroticism and openness to experience [45]. In a review of personality in learning and education, they mentioned that "particularly at the University level, highly neurotic students are probably handicapped as compared to low neurotics."…”

“…In the present study, we focused on the neuroticism factor, which is one of the FFM's personality factors reported to have a prominent role in learning and educational context [45]. Neuroticism relates to the level of emotional stability, where high neuroticism reflects a person's negative disposition such as feeling anxiety, hostility, or self-consciousness [14].…”

Personality types and intercultural competence of foreign language learners in education context

“…De Raad et al .,[9] in a review of personality, learning and education, explain the mediating and moderating roles of personality variables in learning process and state that noncognitive personality factors may appear as moderators of the general process of learning, because they interact with- or moderate-successive stages of the information processing sequence. Furthermore, an individual's personality was reported to have an effect on the extent of information he achieves.…”