chamorro_premuzic: Chamorro-Premuzic, et al. (2008) data

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Chamorro-Premuzic, et al. (2008) data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2023). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

chamorro_premuzic

Format

A tibble with 430 rows and 12 variables.

Details

There is some evidence that students tend to pick courses of lecturers they perceive to be enthusastic and good communicators. In a fascinating study, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and his colleagues (Chamorro-Premuzic, Furnham, Christopher, Garwood, & Martin, 2008) tested the hypothesis that students tend to like lecturers who are like themselves. The authors measured students' own personalities using a very well-established measure (the NEO-FFI) which measures five fundamental personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Students also completed a questionnaire in which they were given descriptions (e.g., 'warm: friendly, warm, sociable, cheerful, affectionate, outgoing') and asked to rate how much they wanted to see this in a lecturer from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer). The characteristics were the same as those measured by the NEO-FFI. As such, the authors had a measure of how much a student had each of the five core personality characteristics, but also a measure of how much they wanted to see those same characteristics in their lecturer. These are the data from that study. The data contains the following variables:

• age: participant age (years)

• sex: participant's biological sex

• stu_neurotic: Student neuroticism score on the NEO-FFI

• stu_extro: Student extroversion score on the NEO-FFI

• stu_open: Student openness to experience score on the NEO-FFI

• stu_agree: Student agreeableness score on the NEO-FFI

• stu_consc: Student conscientiousness score on the NEO-FFI

• lec_neurotic: Student rating of how much they wanted the characteristic of neuroticism in their lecturers from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer)

• lec_extro: Student rating of how much they wanted the characteristic of extroversion in their lecturers from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer)

• lec_open: Student rating of how much they wanted the characteristic of openness to experience in their lecturers from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer)

• lec_agree: Student rating of how much they wanted the characteristic of agreeableness in their lecturers from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer)

• lec_consc: Student rating of how much they wanted the characteristic of conscientiousness in their lecturers from -5 (I don't want this characteristic at all) through 0 (the characteristic is not important) to +5 (I really want this characteristic in my lecturer)

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/chamorro_premuzic.csv

References

• Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Furnham, A., Christopher, A. N., Garwood, J., & Neil Martin, G. (2008). Birds of a feather: Students' preferences for lecturers' personalities as predicted by their own personality and learning approaches. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(4), 965–976. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.032")}

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