A gap in the literature exists pertaining to the impact of academic entitlement on instructor performance evaluations. This study evaluates the relationship between academic entitlement and other variables on instructor performance evaluations. Through use of Amazon Mechanical Turk, 200 United States participants who finished a college-level…

This study aims to examine how external locus of control (eLoC) impacts students' academic procrastination behaviors in asynchronous distance education with regard to compulsive internet habits, cyberloafing, disrespect for copyright, learning goal orientation, and self-efficacy. The sample comprised a total of 916 undergraduate students.…

Objective: This study examined the relationship of students' academic beliefs to the theoretical predictors of prescription stimulant misuse outlined in the Theory of Planned Behavior. Participants: Participants included 147 college students (M[subscript age] = 19.65) from a mid-sized university in the Southwestern United States. Method: An online…

Individual and multiple games played on the Internet are seen as a popular leisure activity, which is becoming increasingly common among young people. With the COVID 19 pandemic, the interest in Internet games has increased because young people spend more time at home. This has led to an increase in Internet gaming disorder, which is recognized by…

The present study was aimed to find out the relationship between academic procrastination and locus of control of graduate students. Survey method was conducted on a stratified random sample of 200 graduate students. In order to collect data, Academic Procrastination Scale (APS-GSBL) developed by Dr. Savita Gupta and Liyaqat Bashir (2018) and…

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine how academic procrastination, academic locus of control, and academic perfectionism predicts the tendency of university students' academic risk taking. Also, this study focused on understanding how academic procrastination, academic locus of control, and academic perfectionism of university students…

The current study examined the relationship of academic entitlement with student attitudes (e.g., locus of control, motivation) and academic behavior. Participants were 272 (96 men, 176 women) undergraduate students enrolled in general psychology and recruited from a psychology research pool. In groups, participants individually completed a…

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the locus of control and the sports manager behavior levels of the students studying in the department of sports management of the faculty of sport sciences. The study was conducted by the correlational survey method, one of the quantitative research designs. Population of the study…

In this study, the university students who participate in sports have been examined in terms of their socialization relative to the participation in sport activities and the locus of control. Students are thought to be engaged in many activities in addition to their lessons during their student tenure at higher education institutions. Their…

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-handicapping, academic procrastination, the locus of control and academic success. The aim was also to determine whether these variables predicted self-handicapping behavior. The population of the study consisted of 263 undergraduates studying in different departments of the…

Data on psychological influences of financial behaviors has not been well addressed in student populations, which is concerning given the high levels of general and financial stress experienced by college students. The findings of this study indicate that college students with an external locus of control exhibit the worst financial behaviors.…

Online courses are growing at a tremendous rate, and although we have discovered a great deal about teaching and learning in the online environment, there is much left to learn. One variable that needs to be explored further is procrastination in online coursework. In this mixed methods study, quantitative methods were utilized to evaluate the…

The study explores the possibilities of gender, ethnicity, and religion differences on attributions (locus of control, stability, personal and external control), motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, religiosity, racial/ethnic identity, and academic…

This article describes the findings of an action research project which examined the link between academic self-efficacy and the study behaviours of students in a tertiary bridging program at a regional university in Australia. It describes the gap which exists between students' instruction in, and knowledge of, being a self-directed learner and…

The National Educational Longitudinal Study database was used to examine the educational development of students of low socioeconomic status (SES). A path analysis was conducted to determine the effects of student background, psychological, and behavioral variables on postsecondary educational attainment of low-SES students. The results show that…