Educational practitioners have been increasingly interested in the use of formative
assessment and rubrics to develop social-emotional skills in children and adolescents …

Anxiety and depression disorders are the biggest mental health hazards of our time and in
many ways closely related. The first anxiety disorder episodes emerge during childhood …

The niche-diversity hypothesis proposes that personality structure arises from the
affordances of unique trait combinations within a society. It predicts that personality traits will …

In conjunction with the increased interest in personality development, the authors developed
new frameworks and theoretical ideas to help understand and explain these new findings …

In early adolescence, levels of conscientiousness and agreeableness have been found to
temporarily decrease, with levels of neuroticism increasing, indicating a dip in personality …

Decades of research have shown that about half of individual differences in personality traits
is heritable. Recent studies have reported that heritability is not fixed, but instead decreases …

Behavior genetic findings figure in debates ranging from urgent public policy matters to
perennial questions about the nature of human agency. Despite a common set of …

Simply Psychology, fifth edition, is an engaging and reader-friendly introduction to the key
principles of psychology. Organised around the major approaches to the subject, it covers …

Some researchers and policymakers advocate a stronger focus on fostering socio-emotional
skills in the hope of helping students to succeed academically, especially those who are …

Based on a perspective on personality coherence as the extent to which personality-relevant
characteristics are differentiated and integrated within a person in his or her environment …