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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Language mindsets influence learners' behavior, motivation, and strategic approaches to studying a language. These mindsets impact how learners perceive control and value in achievement activities, which, in turn, affect their achievement emotions and ultimately their learning strategies and academic performance. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
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Martinie Marie-Amélie; Rebecca Shankland – Cogent Education, 2023
Poor academic performance is known to be linked to the tendency to procrastinate. The latter is thought to reflect deficits in effort regulation and study time management (i.e. learning-related resources), but some recent results have suggested that it could stem from psychological inflexibility. The main objective of the present study was thus to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Time Management, Study Habits
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Flaviu A. Hodis; Georgeta M. Hodis – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2025
Objective: The first objective of this research was to investigate the interrelationships of regulatory focus (i.e. promotion and prevention) and the ability to direct attention when studying. The second was to examine whether unobserved groups of individuals having distinct combinations of regulatory focus and directing attention differed on…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy
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Louisa Willoughby; Adam Schembri; Jess Kruk – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Around the globe, beginner sign language programs have seen surging enrolments in recent years. Yet relatively few learners progress to higher-level sign language study. In this article, we explore factors shaping retention and attrition among a cohort of 70 beginner Australian Sign Language (Auslan) students studying in a vocational education…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Academic Persistence, Career and Technical Education, Student Characteristics
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Kristiina Räihä; Nina Katajavuori; Kimmo Vehkalahti; Henna Asikainen – Frontline Learning Research, 2024
As the increase in university students' mental health problems poses significant challenges to education, new research-based ways to support students' well-being in higher education are urgently needed. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been shown to be effective in enhancing different aspects of well-being in a variety of contexts.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Well Being, College Students, Barriers
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Adrian Leis; Tetsushi Takemori; Keita Abe; Elisa Himori; Rei Suenaga; Kota Umino – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this study, the authors investigated the attitudes of Japanese junior high school students towards studying English from the perspective of the Self-worth Theory. A total of 383 students aged 12 to 15 years participated in the qualitative study. Students were required to write three essays about how they would react under hypothetical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Seif Hashem Al-Azzam; Mohammad Al-Oudat – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: University students in Jordan face numerous challenges that affect their lifestyle on campus and academic performance. The most common challenges can be summarized into two important categories: psychological and academic factors. Psychological factors, such as anxiety levels and daily sleep duration, and academic factors such…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Classification, Prediction
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Hailikari, Telle; Nieminen, Juha; Asikainen, Henna – Educational Psychology, 2022
The present study combines two separate research traditions that have been found to explain the way students deal with their university study and other challenges: psychological flexibility and cognitive-attributional strategies. The aim of this study is to explore the interrelationships between students' psychological flexibility,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Nissim, Yonit; Simon, Eitan – Teaching Education, 2023
The Corona pandemic caused 'disruption' in the world of higher education and required a transition to emergency remote teaching (ERT). Lecturers and students experienced disruption in the familiar processes of teaching and learning. Yet, about a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, a routine of remote teaching was reached. The study examines…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Bozgun, Kayhan; Baytemir, Kemal – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
This study aims at determining the mediating effect of academic intrinsic motivation on the relationship between both students' academic selfefficacy and dispositional hope levels to their academic procrastination habits. The data were collected from a sample of 252 college students, 69 males (27.4%) and 183 females (72.6%), aged between 18 and 33…
Descriptors: State Universities, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
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Tindle, Richard; Abo Hamza, Eid G.; Helal, Ahmed A.; Ayoub, Alaa Eldin A.; Moustafa, Ahmed A. – Review of Education, 2022
Understanding the psychosocial factors that positively and negatively impact academic performance is important to help students succeed and persist in higher education. In this article, we conducted a scoping review to clarify and identify the psychosocial factors affecting university students' academic performance. The initial search returned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Performance, College Students, Psychological Patterns
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Orupabo, Julia; Drange, Ida; Abrahamsen, Bente – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This article explores the impact of cultural resources on success and aspirations among second-generation immigrants in higher education in Norway. We investigate whether and how cultural resources are converted into advantages in higher education. The data consist of cross-sectional survey data and in-depth interviews with Norwegian students of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, College Students, Cultural Influences, Identification (Psychology)
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D'Eon, Marcel; Yasinian, Maryam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
In this article, we propose a new model of student workload. We conducted an extensive literature review of student workload, its impact on students' lives, factors influencing student workload, objective and subjective measurements. The previous conceptualizations of student workload conflate student work and course workload, two related but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Barriers
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Karagiannopoulou, Evangelia; Milienos, Fotios S.; Kamtsios, Spiridon; Rentzios, Christos – Educational Psychology, 2020
The study aims at investigating students' learning/defence profiles. It also explores students' profiles during different years of study. Participants comprised of 425 undergraduates. They completed the 'Approaches to Study and Skills Inventory' and the 'Defense Style Questionnaire'. The students' academic achievement was measured through grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Profiles, Measures (Individuals), Study Habits
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Üner, Ayça; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Kalender, Ilker – Educational Psychology, 2020
Previous research has shown that utility value and expectancy for success, as well as the reasons for academic striving, could partly explain academic engagement. Yet, their joint role in predicting learning strategies and test anxiety has not been thoroughly understood, especially in contexts where pressure for success is high. We examined this…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Test Anxiety, Value Judgment
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