Impulsivity in the eye of the beholder: an analysis of teachers' concepts of impulsive and reflective behaviour | Zendy

Visser Mechteld R. M. | Zendy; DasSmaal Edith A. | Zendy; Feij Jan A. | Zendy

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Impulsivity in the eye of the beholder: an analysis of teachers' concepts of impulsive and reflective behaviour

Author(s) -

Visser Mechteld R. M.,

DasSmaal Edith A.,

Feij Jan A.

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

european journal of personality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.839

H-Index - 84

eISSN - 1099-0984

pISSN - 0890-2070

DOI - 10.1002/per.2410070105

Subject(s) - impulsivity , psychology , cognition , perception , character (mathematics) , developmental psychology , reflectivity , cognitive psychology , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , physics , optics

The aim of this research was to investigate teachers' perception of the concept of impulsivity and its relation to the concept of reflectivity. Teacher rating scales for both concepts were constructed by means of the prototype method (Study 1). It appeared that impulsivity refers to social behaviour, whereas reflectivity is more cognitive in character. A Principal Components Analysis (Study 2) showed that the item pools for impulsive and reflective behaviour account for separate components. It is concluded that impulsivity and reflectivity as perceived by teachers are not two extremes of one dimension, but refer to different behavioural domains: social and cognitive.

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