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Schmidt, Laura I.; Sieverding, Monika; Scheiter, Fabian; Obergfell, Julia – Educational Psychology, 2015
University students often report high stress levels, and studies even suggest a recent increase. However, there is a lack of theoretically based research on the structural conditions that influence students' perceived stress. The current study compared the effects of Karasek's demand-control dimensions with the influence of neuroticism to address…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Neurosis, Models, College Students
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Raacke, John; Bonds-Raacke, Jennifer – Educational Psychology, 2015
The rapid growth in popularity of social networking sites has spurred research exploring the impact of usage in a variety of areas. The current study furthered this line of research by examining the relationships between social network usage and adjustment to college in the academic, social, personal-emotional and university affiliation domains.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Student Adjustment, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Young, Laura N.; Cordes, Sara; Winner, Ellen – Educational Psychology, 2014
We examined the associations between academic achievement and arts involvement (access to a musical instrument for the child at home, participation in unspecified after-school arts activities) in a sample of 2339 11-12-year-olds surveyed in the USA between 1998 and 2008. We compared the contributions of these variables to other kinds of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prediction, Musical Instruments, Socioeconomic Status