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Ting Li; Lushaobo Shi; Yi Xia; Zengping Shi; Dong Wang – Youth & Society, 2024
As a result of globalization, Chinese young adults who transit to adulthood currently are being exposed to a combination of traditional Chinese values such as collectivism and Confucian philosophy, as well as Western individualism. We analyzed the trends in depression prevalence within an 8-year period using panel data derived from young adults in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Predictor Variables, Non Western Civilization
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Linjia Zhang; Norman B. Mendoza; Yi Jiang – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Students' perceptions of the classroom environment are critical determinants of their motivation and academic success. However, the psychological mechanisms through which these contextual factors influence academic outcomes remain insufficiently explored, particularly in different subject domains. Grounded in the Situated Expectancy-Value Theory,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Predictor Variables, Secondary School Students
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Yeung, Susanna S. S.; King, Ronnel B.; Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; Cai, Yuyang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) and motivation are both important predictors of student achievement. However, most studies have investigated these factors separately, and very few have looked into the interplay between SES and motivation as determinants of student reading achievement. Aims: We intend to bridge this gap by examining a model…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Student Motivation, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Lei; Song, Yirui – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2021
To explore the relationship and mechanism of school loose-tight culture to middle school bullying, a total of 808 students were selected from three middle schools in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province of China, to conduct a questionnaire survey. The study used the school loose-tight culture scale, the collective moral disengagement scale, the…
Descriptors: School Culture, Middle School Students, Bullying, Moral Values
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Shuxia Yang; Rui Wang; Bing Mei – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Given the paucity of research on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in secondary schools in China, this retrospective case study explored the psychological processes underlying the non-voluntary MALL experiences of Chinese secondary school students during a lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. Drawing on prior technology acceptance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Bo Shen; Benzheng Li; Jin Bo – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: While the expectancy-value theory recognizes the significance of cost as an essential component, it has garnered minimal attention in physical education. Utilizing two separate datasets, we explored the degree to which the inclusion of cost in an expectancy-value-cost model could augment its predictive capability. Method: Study 1 utilized…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Physical Education, Physical Fitness
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An, Min; Zhang, Xiao; Ching, Fiona N. Y. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This study examined the relationships among pre-service teachers' demographics, motivational factors, and career choice satisfaction in the Chinese context. A sample of 503 pre-service teachers at three education universities from East China was investigated. Informed by the Fit-Choice framework, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Values, Student Motivation, Student Characteristics
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Li, Rui – SAGE Open, 2021
Despite the growing attention being paid to the use of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) in China, it is still uncertain what factors lie behind EFL (English-as-a-foreign-language) learners' continuance intention to use it. To this end, by adding two external factors (i.e., computer self-efficacy and perceived ease of use) to the expectation…
Descriptors: Intention, Persistence, Automation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Wang, Jingying; Yang, Mingyue; Lv, Beibei; Zhang, Feixiong; Zheng, Yonghe; Sun, Yihong – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Science career expectations can be affected by personal science beliefs and social supports. Framed in Expectancy-Value Models, this research studied the influence of science beliefs (science interest belief, self-efficacy belief and value belief) and social supports (parents and teachers) on students' science career expectations by the survey of…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Expectation, Grade 10, High School Students
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Li, Xiaofei; Huebner, E. Scott; Tian, Lili – School Psychology, 2021
Based on expectancy-value theory, this longitudinal study was designed to test the relations between two achievement task values (i.e., attainment value and utility value) as well as their respective influences on academic achievement and depressive symptoms. This study incorporated a sample of 897 (M[subscript age] = 10.36 years, 55.8% male) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Psychology, Academic Achievement, Depression (Psychology)
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Zhao, Shu; Kinshuk; Yao, Ying; Ya, Nan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Mobile social media are increasingly being used in education. They provide an effective way to address the imbalance between teaching supply and demand for older adults. However, few studies have investigated which factors contribute to older adults' intention to use mobile social media for learning. This study uses a sequential explanatory mixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Zhou, Sijing; Zhou, Yu; Zhu, Huiling – SAGE Open, 2021
A growing concern for online course learning is to what extent learners are concentrated and self-regulated when they are isolated from their classmates and instructors. To address this issue, this study collected both quantitative and qualitative data from a sample of 580 Chinese university learners from varied majors, who were taking online…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Undergraduate Students, Intention, Adoption (Ideas)
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Zhang, Yinxia; Yin, Hongbiao; Zheng, Li – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The high rate of academic dishonesty reported among Chinese college students has created challenges for practitioners in both domestic and Western universities. Following two contrasting yet complementary scholarly approaches, this study explored the relative importance of predictors indicative of students' intention to cheat (moral attitude,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Ethics, Cheating
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Qi, Xin; Zaroff, Charles M.; Bernardo, Allan B. I. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Recent research examining the explanations given by the public (i.e. lay beliefs) for autism spectrum disorder often reveals a reasonably accurate understanding of the biogenetic basis of the disorder. However, lay beliefs often manifest aspects of culture, and much of this work has been conducted in western cultures. In this study, 215…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Etiology, Public Opinion
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Zhai, Xuesong; Gu, Jibao; Liu, Hefu; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the flipped classroom model, and many flipped programs have been funded and implemented to explore the effectiveness of this new model. However, previous studies centering on comparative assessment have indicated that it is not always entirely successful in terms of promoting students'…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Homework
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