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Direct linkSeth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
Download full textEsra Eren; Funda Ergüleç; Ahmet Kara – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
Understanding how resilience evolves across the lifespan is crucial for the development of targeted interventions and strategies aimed at promoting resilience. This study aims to investigate the complex interplay between resilience, positive personality traits, and hope in emerging adults. The criterion sampling method was employed to select…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, College Students, Psychological Patterns
Sydney N. Stamatovich; Raluca M. Simons; Jeffrey S. Simons – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Alcohol use is a substantial problem among college students and has several negative consequences. The current study examined the associations between anhedonia and alcohol use and related problems "via" impulsive behavior (e.g., negative urgency, sensation seeking). We parsed anhedonia into four specific facets: consummatory,…
Descriptors: Drinking, Conceptual Tempo, College Students, Correlation
Nuriye Semerci; Çetin Semerci; Fatma Ünal; Emrullah Yilmaz; Ömer Yilmaz – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed at identifying undergraduate students' barriers to critical thinking. This descriptive study adopted a cross-sectional research method. Data were collected from 3rd and 4th grade students in a state university in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Data were collected via the critical thinking barriers scale. The data obtained in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Barriers
Yun Zhang; Fangzheng Zhao; Richard E. Mayer – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background and Objective: The positivity principle states that students learn better from instructors who display positive rather than negative or neutral emotions in multimedia lessons (Lawson et al. 2021a). This study extends this work by exploring the role of affective and social cues displayed by feedback providers, such as their emotional…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Feedback (Response), Gender Differences
Shuai Chen; Xu Wang; Yanling Liu; Zhaojun Teng; Yali Luo – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Aggression is a prevalent problem and negatively affects the mental health among Chinese college students. Trait anger has been found to be a risk factor for aggression, but little is known about the factors that may explain or influence this association. The current study aimed to explore the relationship between college students' trait anger and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, Locus of Control
Kayla Ford; Lindsay S. Ham; Kelly Kennedy – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Shame and guilt are often present prior to and consequent to alcohol use among college students. Little is known about the propensity to experience these emotions in the context of transgressions that occur while drinking alcohol. We examined the association between shame and guilt propensity for alcohol-related transgressions with…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Emotional Response
Flavio A. C. Mendonca; Julius Keller; Jorge D. Albelo – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To investigate collegiate aviation pilots' quality of sleep and psychological distress levels. Participants: Collegiate aviation pilots from a Code of Federal Regulations Part 141 four-year degree-awarding university in central Florida (N = 192). Method: The Pittsburgh Sleepiness Quality Index and the Kessler Psychological Distress…
Descriptors: College Students, Aviation Education, Sleep, Stress Variables
Nilsen, Jeff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Sit-in protests are occurring more frequently on college campuses and yet are viewed with greater disdain by university administration than more conventional protest actions. This grounded theory research study aims to explain the decision-making process of student activists who participate in a sit-in of a university space. Additionally, the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Participation, Activism, College Students
Blakely Murphy; Cynthia A. Rohrbeck; Philip W. Wirtz; Felicity Hoffert; Nicolas DeArcangelis – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: Despite research showing the impact of the threat of COVID-19 on mental health, scholars have failed to examine the relationship between perceived disaster threat and COVID-19 anxiety. Factors that buffer that positive relationship (e.g., optimism and emergency preparedness self-efficacy or EPSE) are also understudied. Thus, we…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
Lothes, John E., II; Matney, Sara; Naseer, Zayne; Pfyffer, Riley – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
Research shows that mindfulness interventions for test anxiety in a college student population are beneficial (Lothes, Matney, & Naseer, 2022). This study assessed the effects of online mindfulness practices over a 5-week period on anxiety and test anxiety in college students. Participants included 20 students that were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Test Anxiety, College Students, Electronic Learning
Hong-xia Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
The aim of the present study is to examine the link between proactive personality (PP) and entrepreneurial intention (EI) and to investigate the mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude (EA) and the moderating role of perceived educational support (PES). A total of 764 university students were recruited using a stratified cluster sampling from…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Student Attitudes
Aleyna Üzmez; Nurdan Kavakli Ulutas – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
The current study investigated university students' well-being during Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) via EMPATHICS framework in the aftermath of an earthquake that struck the Eastern part of Türkiye. The study had a mixed-methods research design, where quantitative data were analyzed through descriptives of the participants' overall happiness…
Descriptors: College Students, Well Being, Natural Disasters, Psychological Patterns
Danielle M. Moskow; Sarah K. Lipson; Martha C. Tompson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study examined symptoms of anxiety, depression and suicidality in a national sample of college students. Participants: Using national survey data from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), a random sample from 184 U.S. campuses from fall 2016 to spring 2019 was analyzed (N = 119,875). Methods: Prevalence rates were examined with the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Suicide, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Christian Grant Larsen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
International students contribute significantly to the diversity and financial well-being of U.S. higher education institutions. These students often experience mistreatment while they are rarely described as a marginalized group in need of inclusive accommodation. This quantitative study investigates perceptions of threat and sense of belonging,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Safety, Student College Relationship
