Download or read book Intellectual Styles Learning Agility and Personality Among University Students written by Siqi Fang and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Intellectual Styles, Learning Agility, and Personality Among University Students" by Siqi, Fang, 方思琪, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The present research serves three purposes. First, the primary aim is to investigate the identity of intellectual styles, which comes to the relationships between intellectual styles and learning agility, as well as intellectual styles and personality traits. Second, it examines the reliability and validity of learning agility among university students. Third, it explores the effects of students' background factors on the intellectual styles, learning agility, and personality. Three hundred and forty-three students from three universities in Guangdong, Shanghai, and Shanxi from Mainland China, responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory RevisedⅡ, the Learning Agility Inventory, and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Results indicated that significant relationships were obtained among intellectual styles, learning agility, and personality. First, TypeⅠintellectual styles, which are more adaptive and creative, significantly and positively predicted higher scores in learning agility. Second, openness and extraversion were positively related to the more creativity-generating and more complex thinking styles. The more norm-favoring and simplistic thinking styles were positively related to neuroticism. Moreover, conscientiousness was related to all types of the thinking styles. Third, openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion personality traits predicted better outcome in learning agility while agreeableness was negatively related to learning agility. Findings also suggested that the Learning Agility Inventory was valid and reliable among university participants, which means that it is applicable to academic settings. Finally, travel experiences were significant associated with TypeⅠintellectual styles as well as higher scores in learning agility. Implications of these findings were discussed for students, teachers, and researchers. Subjects: Learning, Psychology of Cognitive styles