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Monika Kostera – Oxford University Press, 2024
Is the University as we know it dead? Monika Kostera thinks not, but across the globe universities are under attack, be it by external forces or from within. Will they survive? Our civilisation requires that they must: planetary survival and sustainability depend on them. This book provides vital resources to give us all -- professional academics,…
Descriptors: Universities, Altruism, Productivity, Persistence
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Daniel L. Schwartz – Educational Psychologist, 2025
This essay was invited upon the receipt of the American Psychological Association Division 15's Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education in 2021. I propose that modern education should prepare students to continue learning so they can adapt to changing times, circumstances, and knowledge bases. A key step…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Personality Traits, Humanistic Education, Academic Persistence
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Bridgette Tsin Ee Wong; Kususanto Ditto Prihadi; Arman Imran Ashok; Tan Li Huan; Anne Jamaludin – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
Grit, the personal characteristic of perseverance and passion for long-term goals, plays a vital role in college students' success and well-being. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of optimism (a personal factor) and college mattering (a social factor), as well as their underlying mechanism on grit among college students. Data was…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Persistence, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits
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Serkan Cengiz; Adem Peker – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
School burnout is a growing problem among university students. This two-wave longitudinal study examined the mediating effects of academic self-efficacy, grit, and academic resilience in the relationship between academic perfectionism and helicopter parenting, and school burnout in university students based on the "Theory of Self- vs."…
Descriptors: Burnout, College Students, Self Efficacy, Academic Persistence
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Shengjie Lin; Zorana Ivcevic; Todd B. Kashdan; Scott Barry Kaufman – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
The present study examines two self-regulation traits, grit and curiosity, in predicting creative achievement in an adult sample (N = 522). Grit has been related to achievement in various domains, and although prior empirical work failed to find associations with everyday creative activities in adolescent and young adult samples, theoretically it…
Descriptors: Self Control, Personality Traits, Achievement, Persistence
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Preston, Emma G.; Villarosa-Hurlocker, Margo C.; Raposa, Elizabeth B.; Pearson, Matthew R.; Bravo, Adrian J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) is a key trait of social anxiety and has been linked to isolation and low self-esteem. Impulsivity has been shown to amplify the risk of socially anxious individuals engaging in risky behaviors such as suicidal behaviors; yet little research has examined associations between FNE and suicidality or the…
Descriptors: Fear, Anxiety, Conceptual Tempo, Suicide
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Sepiadou, Iwanna; Metallidou, Panayiota – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
The aim of the study was to investigate the predictive value of adaptive and maladaptive dimensions of perfectionism for academic procrastination in university students and the possible moderating role of different dimensions of academic hardiness. The total sample was consisted of 966 undergraduate students from various departments. They were…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Time Management, Predictor Variables
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Jesus Alfonso D. Datu; Ming Ming Chiu; Nino Jose Mateo; Lan Yang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Past studies of grit's educational benefits, such as science engagement, showed mixed results across cultures. So, we elaborated the prior model of grit (perseverance of effort, consistency of interest) with "adaptability to situations" (forming a "triarchic model of grit" TMG), and tested TMG's relation to subsequent science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persistence, High School Students, Learner Engagement
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Ruggeri, Azzurra; Stanciu, Oana; Pelz, Madeline; Gopnik, Alison; Schulz, Eric – Developmental Science, 2024
What drives children to explore and learn when external rewards are uncertain or absent? Across three studies, we tested whether information gain itself acts as an internal reward and suffices to motivate children's actions. We measured 24-56-month-olds' persistence in a game where they had to search for an object (animal or toy), which they never…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Behavior, Information Seeking, Persistence
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David R. Peterson; Marshall W. Pattie – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The Dual Pathway to Creativity Model theorizes that creative performance arises from cognitive flexibility, persistence, or a combination of the two. Existing research has only examined these pathways independently, limiting our understanding of the model and of how people generate ideas. We extend the DPCM model by predicting that creative output…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Models, Persistence
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Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis – Education Sciences, 2022
This paper focuses on the potential of storytelling as a means of influencing students to become engaged with science and to choose a career in a STEM field. Given the role that leaders can play in motivating and influencing people and considering Nikola Tesla a leader in the fields of electrical engineering and science, the paper identifies…
Descriptors: Biographies, Scientists, Learner Engagement, Story Telling
Ashlyn Ringenary – Online Submission, 2025
Creative spaces and experimental practices being used by teachers can create intrinsic motivation in students. Previous research has shown that intrinsic motivation in students can be cultivated using student interests while also finding a balance for creating challenges for the students while also not making something so challenging that the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Art Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation
Mangrich, Ashley E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study focused on postsecondary students who participated in solely online educational programs. The study sought to determine if there was a correlation between student personality traits and their ability to persist in online programs. In addition, this study revealed if a certain personality profile, based on the dominant trait, correlated…
Descriptors: College Students, Personality Traits, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Julia Wisniewski – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to identify the relationship between grit and anxiety within first-year honors college undergraduate students through student surveys, interviews, and archival data. Identifying this relationship may result in additional supportive honors programming in future years as well as add to the understanding of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Resilience (Psychology), College Freshmen, Honors Curriculum
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Finkel, Deborah; Davis, Deborah W.; Giangrande, Evan J.; Womack, Sean; Turkheimer, Eric; Beam, Christopher – Child Development, 2022
The current analysis investigates genetic and environmental influences on the bidirectional relationships between temperament and general cognitive ability (GCA). Measures of GCA and three temperament factors (persistence, approach, and reactivity) were collected from 486 children ages 4-9 years (80% white, 50% female) from the Louisville Twin…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability
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