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Divya Sadana; Rajnish Kumar Gupta; Sanjeev Jain; S. S. Kumaran; Jamuna Rajeswaran – Gifted and Talented International, 2024
The present study aimed to explore the association between creativity, intelligence, and personality. The study recruited sixty healthy volunteers in the age range of 20-40 years from Bengaluru city (formerly Bangalore), South India, and administered tests for fluid intelligence (Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices), personality (Big Five…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality, Intelligence, Correlation
Siti Maryam Md Nor; Haslinda Abdullah; Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh; Syuhaily Osman; Wan Munira Wan Jaafar – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the determinants of healthy lifestyle behavior in married people. It also sought to propose an integrative model that incorporates variables from two theoretical models, namely, the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the health belief model (HBM), as well as two additional variables, namely habit and body…
Descriptors: Life Style, Marriage, Predictor Variables, Human Body
Nicole David; Pascal Rahlff; Hannah König; Sophia Dückert; Petia Gewohn; Frank Erik; Kai Vogeley; Daniel Schöttle; Alexander Konnopka; Holger Schulz; Judith Peth – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Autistic adults frequently show increased physical or mental health conditions and impairments in social, occupational, and other life domains. Accordingly, they often report reduced health-related quality of life. Yet, numerous barriers prevent effective healthcare for autistic adults. To date, the impact of healthcare barriers on health-related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Access to Health Care
Esen Altunay; Nedim Özdemir – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Policymakers worldwide are grappling with devising robust policies aimed at enhancing adult learning, due to its growing significance in bolstering competitiveness within knowledge-based economies. However, there is scant research on adult learning strategies for improving intrapersonal or social practice approaches, particularly in work settings,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Adult Learning, Learning Strategies
Karen L. Schwartz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For over 100 years, youth mentoring has grown to be an evidenced based prevention strategy for youth, demonstrating positive youth outcomes through strong relationships with caring adults. While trusting relationships are the mainstay of the positive impacts achieved through mentoring, the difficulty in recruiting volunteer adults has not met the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Youth Programs, Volunteers, Individual Characteristics
Rachel L. Moseley; Darren Hedley; Julie M. Gamble-Turner; Mirko Uljarevic; Simon M. Bury; Grant S. Shields; Julian N. Trollor; Mark A. Stokes; George M. Slavich – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Despite very high rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) in autistic adults, the key psychosocial drivers of this phenomenon remain unknown. To investigate, we examined how lifetime stressor exposure and severity, which have been found to predict STB in non-autistic populations, related to STB in a multinational dataset of 226 autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Stress Variables, Suicide
Michal B. Paradowski; Magdalena Jelinska – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Learning a foreign language is a long-term process requiring persistence and a willingness to engage in activities that will help develop communicative competence. An important role on the way to achieving linguistic proficiency is played by L2 grit. However, foreign language learners differ in the intensity of this trait. We identify the most…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Predictor Variables
Brendan J. Smith; Joanne McVeigh; Dominika Kwasnicka; Hugh Riddell; Eleanor Quested – Health Education Journal, 2025
Background: Sufficient physical activity (PA) is important to reduce the risk of men developing chronic diseases and to improve mental health. The effectiveness of PA programmes can vary, however, among men. Individual and socio-psychological characteristics may affect the level of men's PA before starting a behaviour change programme as well as…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Physical Activity Level, Males
Tatli, Cemre; Özbay, Yasar – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
The likelihood that individuals will experience psychological problems increases during the pandemic periods, and these problems usually continue after the pandemic process is over. Regarding psychological problems, some concepts, such as hope, have a protective and accelerating role of well-being. This study aims to reveal the psychological…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, COVID-19, Pandemics, Predictor Variables
Sterrett, Kyle; Holbrook, Alison; Landa, Rebecca; Kaiser, Ann; Kasari, Connie – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
The use of speech-generating devices (SGD) in early interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can improve communication and spoken language outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe children's responsiveness to SGD input modeled by a social partner during adult-child play interactions over a 24-week intervention…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interaction, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Yew, Rui Ying; Hooley, Merrilyn; Stokes, Mark A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic individuals have reported lower satisfaction in their romantic relationships compared to non-autistic individuals. Previous research on the factors that contribute to relationship satisfaction within autism has focused on the characteristics of autistic participants as barriers to relationship satisfaction, while overlooking the role of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Relationship, Satisfaction, Intimacy
Stampoltzis, Aglaia; Paradisi, Anastasia E.; Theodosakis, Dimitrios – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2023
Dyslexia is traditionally regarded as a disability which has an impact on the learning process of reading, spelling and writing. This study attempts to explore the character strengths, flourishing, resilience, and perceptions of professional success and satisfaction of 477 Greek adults. The sample consisted of 30 adults with an official diagnosis…
Descriptors: Adults, Dyslexia, Resilience (Psychology), Job Satisfaction
Raposa, Elizabeth B.; Sánchez, Bernadette; O'Donnell, Alexander; Monjaras-Gaytan, Lidia Y. – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study explored whether Latinx adolescents' ethnic identity and stressful experiences predicted characteristics of their naturally-occurring mentoring relationships with non-parental adults. Ninth-grade Latinx students completed surveys about ethnic identity, stress exposure, and their natural mentoring relationships during 9th and 10th grade.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Ethnicity, Stress Variables, Mentors
Scheeren, Anke M.; Buil, J. Marieke; Howlin, Patricia; Bartels, Meike; Begeer, Sander – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Research has shown lower rates of employment and independent living in adults with autism. Many of these findings are based on cross-sectional studies, predominantly involving male participants. In a 6-year longitudinal study, we examined determinants of psychosocial outcomes in 917 adults with autism spectrum disorder (425 men, 492 women, mean…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, Employment
How Age and Race Affect the Frequency, Timing, and Content of Conversations about Race with Children
Sullivan, Jessica; Wilton, Leigh; Apfelbaum, Evan P. – Child Development, 2022
Anti-racist efforts require talking with children about race. The present work tested the predictors of U.S. adults' (N = 441; 52% female; 32% BIPOC participants; M[subscript age] = 35 years) conversations about race with children across two timepoints in 2019. Approximately 60% of adult participants talked to their children (3-12 years) about…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias, Predictor Variables