Predictive role of Personality Traits and Self Control in Mental Health and Academic Achievement among Adolescents Playing Online Games

This research aimed at testing an explicative model of academic achievement of college students. Positive personality traits were hypothesized as the main predictors. Mental health and academic adjustment were tested as mediator variables. This model intended to reflect the main hypothesis that academic achievement is multi-determined and non-intellectual variables play an important role in explaining it. Sample was composed of 256 college students of different majors. The results obtained highlighted the importance of differentiating subjective and objective academic achievement in terms of academic adjustment (AA) and grade point average (GPA), respectively. The explicative model that included positive traits as background variables confirmed the mediating role of mental health and AA in explaining GPA. Sprightliness was the most important predictor of academic achievement in comparison to the other positive traits studied. It is concluded that positive personality traits play an important role in academic outcomes. Keywords: academic adjustment, academic achievement, personality traits, positive traits.

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Mental Health and Academic Achievement: Role of School Nurses

Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1744-6155.2007.00117.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 215-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Kathryn Rose Puskar ◽

Lisa Marie Bernardo

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Academic Achievement ◽

School Nurses ◽

Health And Academic Achievement

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Racial Discrimination Predicts Mental Health Outcomes Beyond the Role of Personality Traits in a Community Sample of African Americans

Clinical Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/2167702620957318 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 216770262095731

Author(s):

Yara Mekawi ◽

Courtland S. Hyatt ◽

Jessica Maples-Keller ◽

Sierra Carter ◽

Vasiliki Michopoulos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

African Americans ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Racial Discrimination ◽

Community Sample ◽

Mental Health Outcomes ◽

Hierarchical Regression

Despite a consistent body of work documenting associations between racial discrimination and negative mental health outcomes, the utility and validity of these findings have recently been questioned because some authors have posited that personality traits may account for these associations. To test this hypothesis in a community sample of African Americans ( n = 419, age: M = 43.96 years), we used bivariate relations and hierarchical regression analyses to determine whether racial discrimination accounted for additional variance in depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms beyond the role of personality. Bivariate relations between personality traits and racial discrimination were small and positive (i.e., rs ≈ .10). Regression results demonstrated that racial discrimination accounted for variance in depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress independent of personality traits ( ps < .01). These results suggest that personality traits do not fully explain associations between racial discrimination and negative mental health outcomes, further supporting the detrimental impact of racial discrimination on the mental health of African Americans.

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The role of mental health, academic stress, academic achievement, and physical activity on self-rated health among adolescents in Iran: A multilevel analysis

Journal of Education and Health Promotion ◽

10.4103/jehp.jehp_161_20 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 182

Author(s):

Saharnaz Nedjat ◽

Zahra Hosseinkhani ◽

Hamid-Reza Hassanabadi ◽

Mahboubeh Parsaeian ◽

Zohre Foroozanfar

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Academic Achievement ◽

Multilevel Analysis ◽

Academic Stress ◽

Self Rated Health

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Theories of Personality

10.31234/osf.io/tn68j ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Cassandra M Brandes ◽

Kathleen Wade Reardon ◽

Jennifer L Tackett

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Academic Achievement ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Life Course ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Personality Development ◽

Adult Individual ◽

Foundational Research ◽

The Life Course

The study of personality development has seen significant advances in the last two decades. For many years, youth and adult individual differences were studied from separate theoretical standpoints. However, more recent research has indicated that teenagers display personality traits in many of the same ways as adults. These personality traits are moderately stable throughout the life course, but there are important developmental shifts in their expression, structure, and maturation, especially in adolescence. This has resulted in an effort to study youth personality “in its own right” (Tackett, Kushner, De Fruyt, & Mervielde, 2013). Early personality associations with important lifelong outcomes including academic achievement, mental health, and interpersonal relationships further underscore the importance of studying traits in youth. Here we discuss current consensus and controversy on adolescent personality and highlight foundational research on the topic.

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Predictors of Mental Health in Adolescence: The Role of Personality, Dispositional Optimism, and Social Support

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244020917963 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 215824402091796

Author(s):

Iva Burešová ◽

Martin Jelínek ◽

Jaroslava Dosedlová ◽

Helena Klimusová

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Support ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Dispositional Optimism ◽

Well Being ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Life Orientation Test

In line with the current psychological approach to health in general, mental health is perceived not only as the absence of psychopathological disorders, but also the presence of well-being. The study contributes to the identification of possible sources affecting mental health in adolescence. This cross-sectional study focuses on the role of personality traits, dispositional optimism, and perceived social support in predicting mental health in adolescence. Mental health was assessed using Mental Health Continuum, personality traits using Big Five Inventory, dispositional optimism using Life Orientation Test—Revised and social support by Close Relationships and Social Support Scale. The research sample consisted of 1,239 respondents aged 12 to 19 years (mean age 15.56 years), 54.3% females and 45.7 % males. Sequential regression analysis revealed that demographic variables and personality characteristics together explained 33.5% of mental health variance, the strongest predictors being extraversion and neuroticism. Including dispositional optimism and perceived social support resulted in a significant increase of the explained variance. All predictors together explained 46.0% of the mental health variance.

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