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Wisner, Marie D. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
This study investigated the degree to which strengths ownership, psychological capital (PsyCap) qualities of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resiliency, and demographic characteristics of gender, college class level, leadership experience, and strengths experience are predictive of effective leadership practices as defined by the Leadership…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Leadership, Student Development, Models
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Gonzalez-Moreno, Patricia Adelaida – Music Education Research, 2012
Despite the increasing number of students in music education graduate programmes, attrition rates suggest a lack of success in retaining and assisting them to the completion of their degree. Based on the expectancy-value theory, the aim of this study was to examine students' motivations (values and competence beliefs) and their complex interaction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Graduate Study, Distance Education
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Caldwell, Roslyn M.; Wiebe, Richard P.; Cleveland, H. Harrington – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the ability of future certainty--an individual's perception of future stability, operationalized as the likelihood of certain life outcomes--to explain variance in delinquency and school adjustment, while controlling for economic, neighborhood, and family factors, among a cross-sectional sample of 1422 male and 1562 female…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Student Adjustment, African Americans, Adolescents