Students' Preferences for Lecturers' Personalities

Autor/inn/en	Tan, Sarah; Mansi, Angela; Furnham, Adrian
Titel	Students' Preferences for Lecturers' Personalities
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42 (2018) 3, S.429-438 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
DOI	10.1080/0309877X.2017.1301406
Schlagwörter	Preferences; Correlation; Personality; Personality Traits; Ethnicity; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Questionnaires; College Faculty; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Scores; Hypothesis Testing; Teacher Attitudes; Factor Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Regression (Statistics); United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Personalität; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ethnizität; Ethnie; Ausland; Fragebogen; Fakultät; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Lehrerverhalten; Faktorenanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	The present study set out to examine students' preferences for lecturers' personality as a function of their classroom behaviour, core self-evaluations and self-rated character strengths. Various hypotheses were tested: first, students' Big Five traits would significantly predict corresponding personality preferences for lecturers (the matching hypothesis); second, students' core self-evaluation scores would significantly predict preferences for extraverted, agreeable and conscientious lecturers; and third, self-rated character strengths would also significantly predict extraverted, agreeable and conscientious lecturers. We also investigated difference in preferences among two ethnic groups (South East Asian/Chinese versus Caucasian/British). In all, 264 British students completed four questionnaires. Conscientiousness was the most desired trait in lecturers, followed by agreeableness, extraversion and openness; neuroticism was the least desired trait. Preference for agreeable lecturers was best predicted by all individual difference variables. Caucasian students had a stronger dislike for neurotic lecturers, while Asians had higher preferences for extraverted, open and agreeable lecturers. There was some evidence of the student-lecturer personality match. Limitations and further research options were discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01