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Umar, Talatu Ibrahim; Idris, Murja – Online Submission, 2018
This study investigated the influence of social media on psychosocial behaviour and academic performance of secondary school students. It was conducted in Batagarawa Local Government, Katsina State, Nigeria. Two research hypotheses were formulated for the study, and descriptive survey research design was employed. The target population consists of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Psychological Patterns, Social Behavior
Moradi Sheykhjan, Tohid; K., Rajeswari; Jabari, Kamran – Online Submission, 2017
The present research endeavor was aimed to assess relationship between Mental Health and Academic Achievement among M.Ed. students in Kerala. The sample of the study consisted of 314 M.Ed. students in Kerala. The method used for the present study was survey method. Mental Health Status Scale (M.H.S. Scale) was used and the study used the total…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Jones, Shawn Cecil – Online Submission, 2017
Classroom size, curriculum, and student attendance are all important factors that affect student outcomes, but these factors cannot compare to the classroom teacher's influence on student academic performance. Unfortunately, highly qualified teachers are not equally effective in different school settings. Findings associated with highly effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Teacher Characteristics
Maadikhah, Elham; Erfani, Nasrollah – Online Submission, 2014
Learned helplessness as a negative motivational state can latently underlie repeated failures and create negative feelings toward the education as well as depression in students and other members of a society. The purpose of this paper is to predict learned helplessness based on students' personality traits. The research is a predictive…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Motivation, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Ohuakanwa, Chijioke Ephraim; Omeje, Joachim Chinweike; Eskay, Michael – Online Submission, 2012
The study sought to investigate the relationship between pornography addiction and psychosocial and academic adjustment of students in universities in Lagos State. In order to achieve this objective, five research questions were formulated and two hypotheses postulated. The subjects for the study consisted of 616 full-time third-year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Pornography
Vul, Edward; Harris, Christine; Winkielman, Piotr; Pashler, Harold – Online Submission, 2009
We are grateful to the commentators for providing many stimulating and valuable observations. The main point of our article was to call attention to the overestimation of individual differences correlations in a subset of neuroimaging papers. To structure our discussion of these comments, we list the main points from our paper, note where…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Individual Differences, Psychological Patterns, Correlation