For failure experiences to be productive for future performance or learning, students must be both willing to persist in the face of failure, and effective in gleaning information from their errors. While there have been extensive advances in understanding the motivational dispositions that drive resilience and persistence in the face of failure, less has been done to investigate what strategies and learning behaviors students can undertake to make those failure experiences productive. This dissertation investigates what kinds of behaviors expert learners (in the form of graduate students) employ when encountering failure that predict future performance (Study 1), and whether such effective behaviors can be provoked in less sophisticated learners (in the form of high school students) that would subsequently lead to deeper learning (Study 2). Study 1 showed that experiencing and responding to failures in an educational electrical circuit puzzle game prior to formal instruction led to deeper learning, and that one particular strategy, “information-seeking and fixing”, was predictive of higher performance. This strategy was decomposed into three metacognitive components: error specification, where the subject made the realization that a knowledge gap or misunderstanding led to the failure; knowledge gap resolution, where the subject sought information to resolve the knowledge gap; and application, where subjects took their newly acquired information to fix their prior error. In Study 2, two types of prompts were added to the educational game: one that provoked students through these metacognitive steps of error specification, information seeking, and fixing, labelled the “Metacognitive Failure Response” (MFR) condition; and a second prompt that provoked students to make a global judgment of knowing, labelled the “Global Awareness” (GA) condition. The results indicated that although there were no significant condition differences between the three groups (MFR, GA, and control condition where participants received no prompt at all), more time spent on the MFR prompt predicted deeper and more robust learning. In contrast, more time spent on the “Global Awareness” prompt did not predict deeper learning, suggesting that individual factors (such as conscientiousness) did not alone account for the benefits of time spent on the MFR prompt on learning. These results suggest that while MFR participants who carefully attended to the metacognitive prompts to specify the source of their errors and seek information experienced learning benefits, not all MFR participants sufficiently attended to the prompts enough to experience learning gains. Altogether, this body of research suggests that using this “error specification, info-seeking, fixing” strategy can be effective for making failure productive, but other instructional techniques beyond system-delivered prompts must be employed for full adoption of this metacognitive response to failure. Implications for teaching students to respond effectively to failure, for games in the classroom, and for design and engineering processes are discussed.

A research project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social and Psychological Research by Coursework and Research Report in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, March 2017 / Working memory (WM) is an executive function that may promote resilience by enabling individuals to generate novel solutions in adverse situations. Research regarding the relationship between these constructs is limited. It is particularly unclear whether, and how, WM may promote resilience in the South African context. This study thus used a mixed method concurrent triangulation design to quantitatively investigate whether WM is related to resilience; and to qualitatively investigate how WM processes feature in participants’ experiences of resilience, and how this is influenced by socio-cultural factors. Thirty-eight young Black South African adults from disadvantaged backgrounds (whose WM had been assessed in a pre-existing study) completed a demographic questionnaire and the Resilience Research Centre-Adult Resilience Measure in person or online. For the qualitative phase, 14 of these participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Quantitative findings were equivocal, but primarily non-significant. Qualitative findings indicated that WM processes featured in participants’ accounts of resilience-promoting resources, but that this was shaped by socio-cultural resources accessible to participants. Working memory also featured as one amongst many of the resilience-promoting resources accessible to participants. The disparity between the quantitative and qualitative findings may be due to the individualistic nature of the quantitative WM measure used. Findings are interpreted in relation to existing literature regarding cognitive functioning and resilience. Implications for understanding and promoting the resilience of Black South African young adults are discussed. / XL2018

This is a qualitative research project that seeks to understand the meanings that Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADC's) have ascribed to their life experiences in relation to their choices about higher education. The participants are four Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors in Oregon who have less than bachelor degrees. The research is based on a case study method of inquiry in which the participants discuss their life experiences and their thoughts about their educations during in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The findings are grouped into two themes that emerged from the data: The themes are: 1) resiliency and 2) personal transformation. In keeping with the literature, this study indicates that people can and do develop resiliency characteristics well into adulthood. It also suggests that reflection can be a vehicle for catharsis and personal transformation. / Graduation date: 2003

In recent years, our society changes rapidly. The position of females in Taiwan have been promoted significantly. The situation induces the raise of the awakening of feminist consciousness. After that, females gets more opportunities to show off all of their talents, and generally become managers or leaders at workplace. The phenomenon caused many discussions and researches, and really highlights the importance of the topic of today's female leaders. How a leader shows the leadership performance could decide the success of the organizational development. Also, we know through the relevant literature that a leader¡¦s personality traits and leadership styles are not only an important issue in the organizational behavior study, but also the key elements of leadership effectiveness. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to inquire the relationship among female leaders¡¦ personality traits, leadership styles and leadership effectiveness by the subordinates cognition in southern electronic media centers. The questionnaire of the study is divided into two parts: the leader questionnaire and the subordinate questionnaire. Total of 215 out of 250 questionnaires were returned. (There are 38 out of 40 from leader questionnaires, and 177 out of 200 from subordinate questionnaires.) The data are analyzed by a variety of statistical methods, such as descriptive statistic, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analysis, etc. The statistical analyses had concluded as followed¡G 1. The hypothesis that the female leaders¡¦ personality traits are significant effect on their leadership effectiveness is partially supported. In accordance with the order of the influence on leadership effectiveness, ¡§Conscientiousness¡¨, ¡§Agreeableness¡¨, and ¡§Openness to Experience¡¨ are the main significantly indicators to predict leadership effectiveness. 2. The hypothesis that the female leaders¡¦ leadership styles are significant effect on their leadership effectiveness is partially supported. ¡§Consideration¡¨is the only significantly indicators to predict leadership effectiveness. 3. Consider the female leaders¡¦ personality traits and the leadership styles at the same time, ¡§Conscientiousness * Initiating Structure¡¨ and ¡§Emotional Stability * Consideration¡¨ have a significant effect on the leadership effectiveness. Thus, the leadership styles have mediator effects between the personality traits and leadership effectiveness.

A Study of Relationships among Cognition of User Enterprises, Cognition of Dispatched Enterprises, Personality traits, Job satisfaction and Turnover Intentions of Taiwanese Dispatched workers Abstract Recently, the number of dispatched workers has been increasing rapidly in Taiwan. Yet little is known of behavior and job attitudes of these workers. Enterprises use dispatched workers due to flexibility concerns or urgent workforce demands. Finding a suitable and stable dispatched worker proves to be a challenge to enterprises. Now, enterprise social accountability is an important subject. Besides the great profit, enterprises should concern job satisfaction and cognition of enterprises to dispatched workers . This study focuses on Taiwanese dispatched workers and aims to examine the relationships among ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨, ¡§cognition of user enterprises¡¨ , ¡§personality trait¡¨,¡¨ job satisfaction¡¨ and ¡§turnover intention¡¨. After interviewing 5 dispatched workers and surveying 152 dispatched workers with questionnaires, the findings are as follows: 1. Female dispatched workers reveal agreeableness better than male. 2. Dispatched workers who are 29 or younger have higher score in Neuroticism; dispatched workers who are older than 29 have higher score in agreeableness and conscientiousness. 3. Dispatched workers who have graduated from high school show significantly higher score in ¡§cognition of dispatched workers toward dispatched enterprises¡¨ than those in university . 4. The contract period of the dispatched workers within 3 months show significantly higher score than those above 2 years. 5. Voluntary dispatched workers have better ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨, higher ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ and lower ¡§ turnover intentions¡¨. 6. Dispatched workers belong to local dispatched enterprises have higher score in Conscientiousness. 7. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has an intermediate effect or an interactive effect between ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨. 8. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has an intermediate effect or an interactive effect between ¡§cognition of user enterprises¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨. 9. Agreeableness is positively correlated to ¡§job satisfaction¡¨. 10. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has no intermediate effect or interactive effect between ¡§personality traits¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨. Key words: dispatched worker, cognition, personality trait, job satisfaction, turnover intention

A study of middle management strategic roles on organizational performance under business transformation ¡V Based on the examples of CHT southern branch Abstract Under the wave of globalization and liberalization, all enterprises face vigorous competition. The enterprises must adjust their resources and strategy to survive. By organization change or defining different kinds attractive target segment, changing the structure or creating another new operating models for the future. The middle manager works between top managers and line level. They are the first ones to grasp customer information and respond the environment demand for organization. It follows the up-level¡¦s demands to do the planned and creative activities. It leads, manages and nurtures the down level. Whether the middle manager engages in the role appropriately or not is the key factor to the organization success. The aim of this research has attempted to address the effect of the CHT¡¦s middle mangers under business transformation and how to play their different strategic role ¡V championing, facilitating, synthesizing and implementing. Therefore, this research bases on the survey of the CHT¡¦s southern branch. There are 400 questionnaires in total and response received 301 valid. By statistic analysis method get some findings as follows: 1.Personality trait, transformation leadership and transaction leadership are significant affect to the middle management strategic roles. 2.Personality trait and transformation leadership significantly affect to the organization performance. 3.The middle management strategic roles are significantly affecting the organizational performance. 4.The middle management facilitating role is the mediator between personality trait and customer satisfaction. 5.Different middle management strategic roles groups have significant difference. Those who belong to Positive-type middle managers were considered to contribute mostly to organizational performance.

With the highly development of Internet, it¡¦s much easier than ever for student to commit plagiarism. However, there¡¦s still no related research regarding Internet plagiarism in Taiwan. Therefore, this study will be focused on student¡¦s Internet plagiarizing behaviors, which are committed by college students, and trying to understand the relationship among students¡¦ personality traits, learning styles, demographic characteristics, and their Internet plagiarizing behaviors. In this study, Internet plagiarism is given a definition by three different types: (1) after reading the contents of Internet materials, students paraphrase and put them in the papers without citation. (2) Students copy texts or data directly from the Internet materials then paste them in the papers without paraphrase and citation. (3)Students not only paraphrase some materials from Internet, but also copy and paste texts and data in the papers directly. 433 questionnaires were distributed in seven universities/colleges in Taiwan and completed by undergraduate and graduate students. The major findings after statistic analyses are as follow: (1)For the last experience of writing papers, the rate of Internet plagiarism committed by college students is up to 86.85%. (2)Students¡¦ Internet plagiarism behaviors have significant differences in gender, age, year level of graduate school, college or graduate school, and discipline, but no significant differences in personality trait, learning style, and year level of college. (3)Students who commit Internet plagiarism, deliberately or not, have significant differences in personality trait and college or graduate school, but no significant differences in learning style, gender, age, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and discipline. (4) Types of student plagiarism have significant differences in gender, age, college or graduate school, discipline, and reasons of plagiarism, but no significant differences in personality trait and learning style. (5)Students¡¦ square root plagiarizing levels have significant differences in personality trait, discipline, and reasons of plagiarism, but no significant differences in learning style, gender, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and college or graduate school. (6)Reasons of student plagiarism have significant differences in age and college or graduate school, but no significant differences in personality trait, learning style, age, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and discipline.

The number of the radio stations reached 208 high at 2008 since they were allowed to apply for the operating licence in 1993, according to statistics of the National Communications Commission. However, the radio stations are facing intense competition with blooming on-line radio stations. Therefore, how to retain loyalty of audience is an important issue for all the radio stations. This study is to explore the correlation of audience personality, life style and the loyalty to the pop-music radio stations. Also it investigates whether a person¡¦s inner-attribute and outer-behavior are related to his loyalty of a pop-music radio station. We used on-line questionnaires and purposive sampling of Kaoshiung residents. We hope that the results of this study would benefit administrative managers for the pop-music radio stations to understand the station¡¦s advantages, the needs of the audiences, and to manage the audiences¡¦ loyalties effectively in the competitive environment. The method of collected data is by using on-line questionnaires and purposive sampling of Kaoshiung residents. Among 241 samples, 236 were effective and 5 samplers were non-listeners to any radio station. After the data anlaysis based on factor theory, the samples were sorted in five different personality traits including agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness and neuroticism. The statistical results show that the number of the audiences possessing agreeableness is the greatest, followings conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, and finally neuroticism. Also the audiences emphasize on the achievement pursuit, following amusement, media attentiveness, topicality interest, job emphasis, spending efficiency, and plan deliberation. The audiences possess the loyalty of the radio station which doesn¡¦t show any differences because of diverse personalities or life styles, and the attitude loyalty is higer than the behavior loyalty.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-58). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [84]-94). Also available on the Internet.