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Nourollah Zarrinabadi, Editor; Miroslaw Pawlak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
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Kelly, William E. – College Student Journal, 2004
This study explored the relationship between noctcaelador, psychological attachment to the night-sky, and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. University students (N = 108) were administered the Noctcaelador Inventory and Saucier's Big-Five Mini-Markers of Personality. Noctcaelador was significantly positively related to Openness to Experience…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Personality Measures, Predictor Variables, Astronomy
McGowan, John R.; Cohen, Lawrence H. – 1984
Some research has suggested that positive life events may interact with negative life events during periods of high stress to buffer the effects of negative events. The relationships among positive and negative life events and positive and negative psychological status were examined in an investigation of the direct and mediating effects of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Depression (Psychology), Predictor Variables
Petiet, Carole Anne – 1984
To systematically test previous assumptions about grief in widows and divorcing women, 410 separated, divorced, or widowed women, between the ages of 23 and 76, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory--Form C, the Attachment Index, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Divorce, Emotional Response
Brown, Jonathon – 1983
Psychological researchers continue to debate the relative contribution of ability and effort to feelings of self-worth. To investigate student preferences for ability or effort and their relationship to self-worth, and to assess the relative contribution of ability and effort to affective experience, two separate studies were undertaken. In the…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, College Students, Emotional Response
Petiet, Carole Anne – 1983
Based on the assumption that differences in personal meaning and in the social significance of loss predispose widows and divorced individuals to different, specific vulnerabilities during grieving, 410 separated, divorced, and widowed women, aged 23 to 76 years, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Divorce, Females
Biggers, J. Thompson; Masterson, John T. – 1983
It is axiomatic that context influences interpersonal behaviors, yet communication researchers have had limited success in generating a set of conceptual or operational definitions for the situation variable. Two studies were conducted to examine emotion-eliciting qualities as the basis for such a typology and the relationship of situations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Communication Research, Higher Education
Govaerts, Kathryn A.; Olson, Douglas H. – 1983
Research on interpersonal influence within counseling psychology has focused primarily on the characteristics of the counselor. There is a need to study the role of client characteristics in resistance or noncompliance. A review of the literature indicates that most client characteristics associated with noncompliance in therapy can be narrowed…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Ability, Coping, Counseling Effectiveness
McGowan, John R. – 1984
While the relationship between stressful life events, social support, and health outcomes has received much attention, efforts to quantify social support and directly examine specific ameliorative effects have resulted in mixed findings. Direct and mediational effects of two psychometrically validated measures of perceived and received social…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, Health, Helping Relationship
Leon, Irving G. – 1983
Most studies investigating the decision to seek mental health care have focused on socio-demographic differences in health utilization behavior rather than psychological variables. To evaluate three psychological explanations of help-seeking behavior, i.e., the health belief model, the socio-cultural perspective, and an ego psychological approach,…
Descriptors: Adults, Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health Programs, Motivation
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Shanahan, Michael J.; And Others – Sociology of Education, 1997
Presents a look at individual responsibility and decision making (here defined as planfulness) and how it is affected by external factors of social and economic turmoil. Utilizes data from a longitudinal study of privileged men born between 1904 and 1917 and their educational attainment in subsequent years. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adolescent Development, Age Groups, Decision Making