Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Education
Pub Date
6-29-2018
Abstract
Greater knowledge of the psychology of honors college students will help to inform program administrators, counselors, residence life assistants, and faculty about how they may provide support to those with the greatest need. Via an online survey, personality, perfectionism, and suicidal ideation data were collected from honors college students (N = 410, 73% female). Using latent profile analysis, students were classified by their responses to the Big Five Inventory personality measure into five profiles. Risk factors of high perfectionism and suicidal ideation scores were found in two of the profiles, suggesting students with these personality characteristics may need enhanced psychological support. The largest profile (35% of students) had extraversion scores above the norm, but all other profiles had introverted scores below the norm. Neuroticism scores were also higher than the norm in the introverted profiles, which represented a majority of the honors college students.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353218781754
Journal Title
Journal for the Education of the Gifted
Volume
41
Issue
3
Journal Article URL
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0162353218781754#
First Page
242
Recommended Citation
Cross, Tracy L.; Cross, Jennifer Riedl; Mammadov, Sakhavat; Ward, Thomas J.; Speirs Neumeister, Kristie; and Anderson, Lori, Psychological heterogeneity among honors college students (2018). Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 41(3), 242-272.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353218781754
Publisher Statement
This version is the accepted, post-print version of the article.
