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Stephen Melville – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Fundamentally, the aim of education is to empower students to live better lives. By "better" it is not merely meant that students will find gainful employment and be more civic-minded, but also that on an individual level a student will engage the examined life and fulfill their potential. This process of self-discovery addresses three…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Self Concept, Locus of Control, Grade 12
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Fahad Neda Alenezi; Shahabuddin Bin Hashim; Mashail Alanezy; Bader Falah Alharbi – Open Education Studies, 2024
There is growing interested in the role of psychological resilience in shaping adolescent students' delinquent behaviours in secondary schools. In this article, using locus of control theory, we examine the role of psychological resilience in terms of hardiness, resourcefulness, and optimism in minimizing the occurrence of cyber delinquent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology), Delinquency, Secondary School Students
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Beymer, Patrick N.; Robinson, Kristy A.; Schmidt, Jennifer A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article examined relations among classroom activities, students' momentary control- and value-related appraisals, and students' state emotions in high school science classrooms. Throughout 10 days of instruction, high school students (N = 244) reported their state emotions and task-specific control- and value-related appraisals during science…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns, High School Students
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Goetz, Thomas; Keller, Melanie M.; Lüdtke, Oliver; Nett, Ulrike E.; Lipnevich, Anastasiya A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Guided by Pekrun's (2006) control-value theory of achievement emotions, we investigated the mediating role of control and value appraisals in the relations between students' perceptions of teaching and their academic emotions. To account for the highly fluctuating and dynamic nature of emotions, we used the experience sampling method complemented…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Teacher Characteristics
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Balaž, Barbara; Hanzec Markovic, Ivana; Brajša-Žganec, Andreja – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Objective: The main purpose of this study was to examine the assumptions of the control-value theory of achievement emotions in the explanation of the relationship between positive achievement emotions and academic success. Method: The study was conducted among 513 high school students (341 female) from two high schools in Zagreb, Croatia.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Namli, Sevinc; Demir, Gonul Tekkursun – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine whether mental toughness levels of athletes engaged in the elite-level team and individual sports in Ankara and Erzurum were predictors of moral disengagement in sports. The sample of the study consisted of randomly-selected 515 athletes who were actively engaged in sports in their clubs in 2017. The…
Descriptors: Athletes, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Athletics
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Christens, Brian D.; Peterson, N. Andrew; Reid, Robert J.; Garcia-Reid, Pauline – Youth & Society, 2015
Sociopolitical control (SPC) has been identified as a critical component of empowerment, resilience and civic development among young people. Sociopolitical control has been assessed according to a two dimensional model: (1) leadership competence and (2) policy control. Very little is known, however, about heterogeneity of perceptions of SPC, how…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Locus of Control, High School Students, Multivariate Analysis
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Mechler, Heather – Journal of College and Character, 2013
In this article, the author explores the existing research on the characteristics of Millennials within historical, social, and economic contexts. While many researchers have made claims about Millennials, they fail to consider how parenting styles, economic factors, historical events, and shifts in educational priorities may have created the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Young Adults, Adolescents, Individual Characteristics
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Kurland, Robert M.; Siegel, Harold I. – NACADA Journal, 2013
We used 2 studies to examine attachment security and college student success. In the 1st study, 85 first-semester students provided information on attachment dimensions and psychological, ethical, and social indices. More anxious students performed worse academically in college than they had in high school and indicated they would be more willing…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Success, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
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Karatas, Zeynep; Cakar, Firdevs Savi – International Education Studies, 2011
Adolescence is a time of rapid development and change. In this developmental period, adolescents have to struggle with a large number of stress factors. In this process resilience is important to have as an adaptive, stress-resistant personal quality. The recent research considers that numerous factors contribute to resilience in adolescents; the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Self Esteem, Psychological Patterns
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Nagengast, Benjamin; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Parada, Roberto H.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Hamilton, Linda R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Existing research posits multiple dimensions of bullying and victimization but has not identified well-differentiated facets of these constructs that meet standards of good measurement: goodness of fit, measurement invariance, lack of differential item functioning, and well-differentiated factors that are not so highly correlated as to detract…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Test Bias, Bullying, Structural Equation Models
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Rosenthal, Beth Spenciner; Wilson, W. Cody – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
This empirical study investigated three mechanisms of protection (preventive, compensatory, buffering) for two factors (emotional social support, sense of personal control) in the relationship between exposure to community violence and psychological distress among 947 diverse, older adolescents. Findings indicate that social support and sense of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Questionnaires, Personality Traits
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Moller, Jens; Husemann, Nicole – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
According to the internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model (H. W. Marsh, 1986), students not only compare their own abilities in a domain with those of other students (social comparison), they also compare their own achievements in different domains (internal comparison). The main purpose of this study was to investigate internal comparison…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Models, Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology
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Plotnick, Robert D. – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
Using data collected in 2000 on a racially and ethnically diverse sample of high school seniors, this study analyzes adolescents' expectations and desires about marriage and parenthood, including unwed parenthood. The conceptual framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective receives…
Descriptors: Expectation, Child Rearing, High School Seniors, Student Attitudes