Whether highly curious students thrive academically depends on perceptions about the school learning environment: A study of Hong Kong adolescents

By T. Kashdan, Mantak Yuen. 2007

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Development and evaluation of the positive psychology intervention for older adults (2014, methodology): “For the purpose of this study, a Chinese version of the instrument was adopted (Kashdan & Yuen, 2007).”
Curiosity, interest and engagement in technology-pervasive learning environments: a new research agenda (2011, background): “Kashdan and Silvia (2009) study curiosity in everyday life while Kashdan and Yuen (2007) consider the benefit of curiosity for academic achievement and the moderating influence of social environments and, as such, ''provide preliminary support for a person-environment fit approach to curiosity''…”
Curiosity and Interest: The Benefits of Thriving on Novelty and Challenge (2009, background): “…with greater trait curiosity who perceived their schools to be academically challenging had the greatest grades and performance on national achievement tests, whereas students with greater trait curiosity in less challenging schools had the worst academic outcomes (Kashdan & Yuen, 2007).”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, background): “…recent educational research has focused on the development of curiosity measures applicable to educational investigations (Kashdan et al. 2009; Litman and Jimerson 2004; Woods-Groves et al. 2009) and has examined curiosity as it relates to learning (Kashdan and Yuen 2007; Reio and Wiswell 2000).”
The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics (2009, background): “Often, specific curiosity and motivated actions originate with a mixture of pleasant and unpleasant feelings (Berlyne , 1967; Leherissey, 1971).”