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Vargo, Elisabeth Julie – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2023
Universities around the world are undergoing a marketisation process in order to respond to consumer-oriented demands. Despite priority shifts, universities have remained traditionally hierarchical and elitist. Moreover, a new and growing generation of academic researchers has found it increasingly difficult to integrate in academia. Systems and…
Descriptors: Universities, Organizational Culture, Researchers, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Winkler, David A. – Christian Higher Education, 2022
Academic achievement has too often been a metric by which students define their self-worth. For some students, this focus manifests itself through perfectionism, attaining high grades, and overvaluing extrinsic learning rewards. Students who consider their self-worth to be contingent upon their academic performance often suffer from withdrawal,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Grading, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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Steinberg, Lynne; Sharp, Carla; Stanford, Matthew S.; Tharp, Andra Teten – Psychological Assessment, 2013
The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS), a 30-item self-report measure, is one of the most commonly used scales for the assessment of the personality construct of impulsiveness. It has recently marked 50 years of use in research and clinical settings. The current BIS-11 is held to measure 3 theoretical subtraits, namely, attentional, motor, and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Personality Measures, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Menon, Mohan K.; Sharland, Alex – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
Renewed interest in the effects of narcissism in the media has generated a closer examination of the phenomenon. This coupled with an increase in academic misbehavior among both high school and university students has provided an opportunity to scrutinize the effects of narcissism on attitudes toward academic dishonesty. The authors investigated…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Cheating, Personality Problems
Singh, Delar K. – Online Submission, 2011
This paper focuses on college students with psychiatric disabilities. It defines and discusses various psychiatric conditions such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. It concludes with accommodations that a college professor can make to help these students succeed in higher education. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Personality Problems, College Students, Eating Disorders
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Baer, Ruth A.; Smith, Gregory T.; Allen, Kristin B. – Assessment, 2004
A self-report inventory for the assessment of mindfulness skills was developed, and its psychometric characteristics and relationships with other constructs were examined. Participants included three samples of undergraduate students and a sample of outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Based on discussions of mindfulness in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychometrics, Personality, Personality Problems