Brief: Non-Cognitive

Skills and Personality

Readings
• Non-cognitive Skills
• Personality Model
• The Big Five Model
• Chinese Big Five Traits Inventory (CPT-15)
• Age Differences in the Big Five Across the Life Span: Evidence from Two National Samples - PMC (nih.gov)
• MC. O Connor, et. Al., Big Five personality predictors of post-secondary academic performance (cited 1,343)
• M. Komarraju, et. al., 2011The Big Five Personality Traits, Learning Styles and Academic Achievements (cited 881)
• MBTI personality traits model
• Self-efficacy: A. Bandura, 1991, Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency (cited 30,787)
• Self-control:
JP. Tangney et. al. 2018, High self-control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal s
uccess (cited 7,292)
• Self-regulation:
R.F Baumeister, 2007, Self-regulation and the executive function: The self as controlling agent (cited 638)
• Self-esteem: M. Rosenberg, 1965, Rosenberg self-esteem scale (cited 665)
• Social and Emotional Skills
• Extra:
• I Ajzen, 1991, The theory of planned behavior (cited 104,109)
• Some concepts:
• Factor Analysis
• Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)
• Survey (assessment)’s reliability measurement
• Cronbach’s Alpha
Advanced: Personality Extractions
• Based on Video and Audio:
• For module 9 in the overview picture for China Business
• Not urgent now
• Dataset: ChaLearn (uab.cat)
• May be good references: TAC2017.pdf - Google Drive