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Alev Üstündag – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The purpose of this study was to analyse emotional regulation and psychological resilience in adolescents, exploring various variables and their interrelationships. A descriptive and relational survey model was used in the study, which included a sample of 967 adolescents in Turkey. Data were collected using a "Personal Information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Adolescents, Emotional Response
Gülçin Güler Öztekin; Samet Ata; Merve Cosgun Demirdag – School Psychology International, 2025
There is little evidence regarding the impact of helicopter parenting (HP) on adolescents' school adjustment (SA). This study examined gender differences in maternal/paternal HP, internal/external academic locus of control (ALC) and SA, and the mediating effect of internal/external ALC in the relationship between maternal/paternal HP and SA in…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Fathers
Can, Süleyman; Durukan, Erdil – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Academic locus of control has an important place in explaining students' behaviors in educational settings. The purpose of the current study is to determine the level of the pedagogical formation students' academic locus of control and to investigate whether this level varies depending on some variables. The study employed the survey model, one of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Locus of Control, Foreign Countries
Kumaravelu, G. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2018
This study aims to find out whether there is any positive relationship among locus of control and academic achievement of High school students in Puducherry region from a study on 380 school students. Locus of control scale developed by Levenson (1973) was used to collect the data. Results revealed significant difference was not observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement
Kovach, Mary – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2018
This manuscript demonstrates the value of understanding locus of control in higher education. Understanding this value provides educators with the ability to potentially predict academic outcomes and have the foresight to guide students to achievement. First, the manuscript identifies and explores the classic theories of motivation from the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Age Differences, Locus of Control, Outcomes of Education
Ciftci, S. Koza – Online Submission, 2019
In this study, the effect of mathematics teacher candidates' locus of control on math anxiety was tested, along with the effects of gender, achievement and class level moderators. The study was carried out according to a causal design in which locus of control was taken as an independent variable, while math anxiety was taken as the dependent…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Gender Differences
Gujjar, Aijaz Ahmed; Aijaz, Rukhma – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2014
Motivation is regarded as the alpha and omega of learning. It is the heart of teaching learning process. Motivation is defined as an internal state that arouses, directs, and maintains the behavior over time. Thus motivation is the pivotal component of learning and locus of control which is one of the important factors it stems from. Locus of…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, College Students
Kayis, Ahmet Rifat; Ceyhan, Aydogan Aykut – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
It is the aim of this research to investigate the achievement goals of university students. Firstly, university students' adoption levels of achievement goals are described. Next, how their level of academic self-efficacy, irrational beliefs, perfectionism, self-determination, locus of control and gender predict each achievement goal is depicted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
Moore, Linden A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In September of 2007, the Michigan Department of Education introduced a program referred to as seat time waivers to a few school districts in Michigan to pilot. During the 2009-2010 school year, 999 students were on seat time waivers with a total of 5070 classes taken by these students. While the number of online learners continues to grow…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Administration, Metacognition, Self Management
Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Guerra, Norma; Sass, Daniel; Hseih, Pei-Hsuan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling to evaluate the interrelations among cognitive motivational variables and academic achievement using a sample of 128 predominately Hispanic pre-service teachers enrolled in two undergraduate educational psychology classes. Data were gathered using: (1) a quantitative questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Student Motivation, Cognitive Processes
Atik, Gökhan; Güneri, Oya Yerin – School Psychology International, 2013
This study explored the roles of individual factors (age, gender, locus of control, self-esteem, and loneliness), parenting style, and academic achievement in discriminating students involved in bullying (as bullies, victims, and bully/victims) from those not involved. Participants comprised 742 middle school students (393 females, 349 males). The…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Middle School Students, Parent Role
Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The study explores the possibilities of gender, ethnicity, and religion differences on attributions (locus of control, stability, personal and external control), motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, religiosity, racial/ethnic identity, and academic…
Descriptors: College Students, State Universities, Private Colleges, Gender Differences
Kurland, Robert M.; Siegel, Harold I. – NACADA Journal, 2013
We used 2 studies to examine attachment security and college student success. In the 1st study, 85 first-semester students provided information on attachment dimensions and psychological, ethical, and social indices. More anxious students performed worse academically in college than they had in high school and indicated they would be more willing…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Success, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Law, Philip; Yuen, Desmond – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of factors affecting students' choice of accounting as a study major in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach: Multinomial logistic regression and Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling (HGLM) are used to analyze the survey data for the level one and level two data, which is the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Accounting
Kelly, Diana F. – Online Submission, 2012
(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to examine the consequences of violence exposure (personal and community) on African American students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as those attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Further, this study sought to determine if violence exposure makes a difference…
Descriptors: African American Students, Locus of Control, College Students, Black Colleges
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