We consider need for sense-making a personal resource and propose that people differ in their levels of this need. present results five studies (N = 879) tested Need Sense-Making Scale (NSM). The scale is unidimensional, highly reliable, has satisfactory construct criterion validity. was moderately positively related to extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, self-esteem, sense control, whil...

0-7803-7952-7/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE. Abstract – This present study examined the effects of animated characters and presenting voices on comprehension and attention performance in learning from a multimedia presentation. This study also investigated the effect of introversion/extroversion in learning performance and rating affected by animated character. Comprehension was affected by neither ani...

The present investigation sought to distinguish hope from optimism in the context of a 10-wk. prospective study involving reports of health outcomes. Gottschalk's (1985) Hope Scale and Scheier and Carver's (1987) Life Orientation Test which assesses optimism were given to subjects, along with a health questionnaire. Ten weeks later subjects were given a second health questionnaire. To rule out ...

The paper reports a comparative assessment of 3 usability-testing methods (UTM) involving 45 children aged 8-14 as test-users. The 3 methods were concurrent think-aloud, interview and questionnaire. These 3 UTM ’s require different levels of verbalisation from the children that were performing the evaluation. It was hypothesised that the age of the children, their gender, verbal competence and ...

Over the last few decades, social networking sites (SNS) have evolved as an effective medium of communication for world. They are instrumental in connecting people across time and space with just a click. However, darker side SNS has resulted deteriorated human connection between individuals real life. The current study is attempt to examine compulsive usage detail. It utilizes sequential mixed...

Individual differences, such as intelligence, learning style, motivation, age and so on, have been playing a significant role in second language acquisition (SLA). Particularly, this essay discusses what impacts personality has on well the implication future teaching practice. First, series of variables including extroversion/introversion, inhibition/risk-taking, anxiety, self-esteem empathy ar...

the present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. the participants were 80 male and female efl students of university of sistan and baluchestan who had studied efl at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. the participants were selected after excluding those who got l scores...

The present study intended to propose a causal model of factors that would predict Oral Communication Apprehension (OCA) of Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. To conduct the study, 135 male and female University students majoring in English were selected. Five variables including: learners’self-esteem and introversion/extroversion(as independent variables), their gender and prof...