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Selçuk, Sule; Koçak, Aylin; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Michou, Aikaterini; Sayil, Melike – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Do students procrastinate less when their parents psychologically press them to study? Or do they show procrastination when classroom environment lacks structure? In this study, we aimed to investigate to what extent perceived maternal psychological control and perceived classroom structure in math class relate to adolescents' academic…
Descriptors: Time Management, Parent Influence, Classroom Environment, Mothers
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Zhang, Hong; Tang, Hanwei; Zhang, Mengnan; Wang, Fuyan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study investigated how students' attitudes toward bullying were influenced simultaneously by personal and contextual factors in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Participants included 25,338 students (15-year-olds, from grade 7 to 12) and 663 schools from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei drawn from the Program for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; Cai, Yuyang; King, Ronnel B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Previous studies that attempted to explain why girls often perform better than boys in reading have emphasized the role of values and beliefs, with little attention paid to the role of emotions. This study focused on the role of parent-child emotional contagion in explaining gender differences, by investigating how parents' reading emotion…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Achievement, Parent Influence, Emotional Response
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Gökçe, Semirhan; Güner, Pinar; Bastug, Muhammet – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The purpose of this study is to develop tests for monitoring the number sense skills of primary school students based on proficiency definitions and to compare their number sense skills according to gender, school type, and mother's educational level. The first stage addressed to test development in which anchor items were used for vertical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Number Concepts, Elementary School Students
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Kristensen, Sara M.; Jørgensen, Magnus; Meland, Eivind; Urke, Helga B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study investigates how perceived support from peers, parents, and teachers influences later academic performance and if academic self-efficacy and entity intelligence beliefs mediate this association in a sample of early secondary school students. Data were collected from 750 Norwegian students in lower secondary school at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Grade 10
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Coren, Sidney A.; Luthar, Suniya S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
This study extends past findings of heightened problems among affluent youth by examining adjustment patterns among boys in two academically elite, independent high schools: one for boys only and the other co-educational. Both samples manifested disproportionately high rates of internalizing and externalizing symptoms, but only the co-educational…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Males, High School Students, Private Schools
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Ricciardelli, Lina A.; McCabe, Marita P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
The study examined the role of body dissatisfaction, body image importance, sociocultural influences (media and parent and peer encouragement), self-esteem and negative affect on body change strategies to decrease weight and increase muscles in adolescent boys and girls. Surveys were administered to 587 boys and 598 girls aged between 11 and 15…
Descriptors: Females, Change Strategies, Males, Self Concept