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Direct linkDerrer-Rendall, Nicola; Wesson, Caroline; Anderson, Lindsey; Bould, Emma – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: This paper reports a preliminary investigation of the individual and situational factors affecting goal achievement in a psychology student population. The impact of normative information on goal achievement is considered in relation to goal commitment, optimism, gender and academic setting. Method: Psychology students (n=121) from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychology, Goal Orientation
Tesch-Romer, Clemens; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Tomasik, Martin J. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
These analyses explore the relationship between gender inequality and subjective well-being. The hypothesis was tested as to whether societal gender inequality is related to the size of gender differences in subjective well-being in various societies. Results come from comparative data sets (World Values Survey, involving 57 countries; OASIS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Well Being, Cross Cultural Studies
Hay, Dale F.; Pawlby, Susan; Waters, Cerith S.; Sharp, Deborah – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is considered a major public health problem that conveys risk to mothers and offspring. Yet PPD typically occurs in the context of a lifelong episodic illness, and its putative effects might derive from the child's exposure to other episodes, in pregnancy or later childhood. The aim of the study is to test…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Disturbances, Public Health, Pregnancy
Carrington, Bruce; Tymms, Peter; Merrell, Christine – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
A number of countries are running role model recruitment drives under the assumption that like is good for like: ethnic minority teachers should teach ethnic minority children, women should teach girls, and so on. The empirical basis for this would appear to be case study and personal reflection. This article will examine quantitative data to test…
Descriptors: Role Models, Student Diversity, Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Children
Dumay, Xavier; Dupriez, Vincent – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
In the scientific literature, the debate around the school and class effect is polarized, because the variance between schools and classes is explained either by school and class process or by group composition. The first aim of this article is to shed light on this debate and move beyond it by reviewing qualitative and quantitative studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Models, Mathematics Instruction
Grabe, Esther; Rosner, Burton S.; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Zhou, Xiaolin – Language and Speech, 2003
Native language affects the perception of segmental phonetic structure, of stress, and of semantic and pragmatic effects of intonation. Similarly, native language might influence the perception of similarities and differences among intonation contours. To test this hypothesis, a cross-language experiment was conducted. An English utterance was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Intonation, Semantics, Multidimensional Scaling
