Personality Types and Academic Persistence in Doctoral Students - A Mixed-Methods Approach for Improving Student Retention in Doctoral Students

In past studies regarding student retention researchers have focused primarily on the undergraduate student population, but high attrition rates exist in doctoral students. Furthermore, core personality types such as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism relate to academic persistence. The purposes of the current mixed-methods sequential explanatory study were to examine the relationship between doctoral student personality types and persistence and to explore doctoral students' perceptions of the impact of personality types on their persistence.

About the author

Dr. Anique Falconer is a Psychology Professor at Keiser University. She earned her PhD. and Education Specialist degrees in Education Leadership and her Masters and Undergraduate degrees in Psychology. Dr. Falconer¿s current teaching and research interests include student retention and persistence, personality types, and motivation.

Product details

• Authors: Anique Falconer
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2017
• EAN: 9783330019324
• ISBN: 978-3-33-001932-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education