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Cher Weixia Chen; Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron; Julie E. Owen; Steve Grande – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study that explores college students' perspectives on how their activism impacts their well-being. Based on a study of 119 US college students, the authors share their findings through a constructivist,…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Well Being, Student Attitudes
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Shepherd, Robin-Marie; Edelman, Robert J. – College Quarterly, 2009
This is the first study to investigate the interrelationship of social anxiety with the variables anxiety, depression, locus of control, ego strength and ways of coping in a sample of university students. There were high scores of social anxiety which were related to high scores on measures of anxiety and depression, low ego strength, external…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Concept, Coping, Depression (Psychology)
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Newton, Kristie Jones – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2009
This study was undertaken in order to better understand prospective elementary school teachers' motivations for working with fractions before and after taking a course designed to deepen their understanding of mathematics, as well as what instructional practices might be related to any changes detected in their motivations. Eighty-five education…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes