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Brewster, Barbara Jane; Miller, Tess – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
Competency in mathematics is needed to respond to the vast employment opportunities available in the STEM sectors. These employment opportunities all require basic foundational mathematics skills, yet there is a shortfall of mathematics abilities due, in-part, to mathematics anxiety. Mathematics anxiety can surface as fear and avoidance of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Anxiety, Intervention, Cognitive Processes
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Libing Liu; Xueying Li; Yu Sun; Nansheng Luo; Ru Bai; Xin Xu; Li Liu – Educational Psychology, 2024
This study examined the mediating effects of cognitive empathy and affective empathy in the relationship between dispositional awe and prosocial behaviour in medical students, and whether perceived stress moderated this association. A total of 631 medical students from two medical tertiary institutions in Liaoning Province, China, participated in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Medical Education, Medical Students, Prosocial Behavior
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Moon, Jewoong; Ke, Fengfeng; Sokolikj, Zlatko; Dahlstrom-Hakki, Ibrahim – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
Using multimodal data fusion techniques, we built and tested prediction models to track middle-school student distress states during educational gameplay. We collected and analyzed 1,145 data instances, sampled from a total of 31 middle-school students' audio- and video-recorded gameplay sessions. We conducted data wrangling with student gameplay…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Stress Variables, Educational Games, Middle School Students
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Jennifer Hynes; Sarah-Jane Cullinane – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
An increasing body of work has found higher education to be a challenging and stressful environment. Meanwhile, research on workaholism, characterised by an uncontrollable urge to work excessively, has been gaining momentum. However, few studies have explored its impact within higher education. This study addressed this gap by conducting 27…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Faculty, Work Ethic
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Aldoney, Daniela; Prieto, Fernanda – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
Maternal and paternal involvement are an important predictor of child development. In the current study, we describe the cognitive and affective involvement of parents with their three-year-old children in a sample of 115 Chilean parents of medium/low socioeconomic status. Additionally, we analysed differences in the level of involvement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Mothers, Fathers
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Siegwarth, Nicole; Larkin, Kevin T.; Kemmner, Christine – Psychological Record, 2012
Experimenter effects have long been hypothesized to influence participants' responses to mental stress testing. To explore the influence of experimenter warmth on responses to two mental stress tasks (mental arithmetic, mirror tracing), 32 young women participated in a single 45-min experimental session. Participants were randomized into warm…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Females, Emotional Response, Human Body
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Lorber, Michael F.; Erlanger, Ann C. Eckardt; Slep, Amy M. Smith – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013
Objective: Cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stressors was investigated as (a) a moderator of associations of partner aggression with affective functioning, alcohol problems, and parenting; and (b) a consequence of partner aggression. Method: Cohabiting adult couples (N = 453) with 3- to 7-year-old children were recruited by random digit…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Alcoholism, Aggression, Drinking
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Barrett, Jennifer; Fleming, Alison S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Quality of mothering relies on the integrity of multiple physiological and behavioral systems and on two maternal factors, one proximal and one distal, that have a great impact on how a mother mothers: postpartum depression and early experiences. To mother appropriately requires the action of systems that regulate sensation, perception, affect,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Behavior, Systems Approach, Integrity
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Doughty, Elizabeth A. – Death Studies, 2009
There has been an evolution in the understanding of the nature of grief since S. Freud's initial work, Mourning and Melancholia (1917/1953). Mental health practitioners and researchers have established new models to aid in the conceptualization and treatment of grief issues. The purpose of this study was to examine the opinions of experts in the…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Grief, Death, Depression (Psychology)
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Zhou, Yuefang; Jindal-Snape, Divya; Topping, Keith; Todman, John – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
Theoretical concepts of culture shock and adaptation are reviewed, as applied to the pedagogical adaptation of student sojourners in an unfamiliar culture. The historical development of "traditional" theories of culture shock led to the emergence of contemporary theoretical approaches, such as "culture learning", "stress and coping" and "social…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Models, Culture Conflict, College Students
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Gazelle, Heidi; Druhen, Madelynn J. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a sample of 3rd graders (N = 160, 59% girls), anxious solitary excluded children displayed more…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Helplessness, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Shih, Josephine H.; Abela, John R. Z.; Starrs, Claire – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
Stress generation is a process in which individuals, through their depressive symptoms, personal characteristics, and/or behaviors, contribute to the occurrence of stressful life events. While this process has been well documented in adults, few studies have examined it in children. The present study examines whether cognitive and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Interpersonal Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Schmader, Toni; Johns, Michael; Forbes, Chad – Psychological Review, 2008
Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete understanding of the processes underlying these stereotype threat effects on behavior is still lacking. The authors examine stereotype threat in the context of research on…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Negative Attitudes, Short Term Memory, Stress Variables
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Horowitz, Mardi J.; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
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Reijntjes, Albert; Stegge, Hedy; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Hurkens, Edith – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
The present study examined the relationship between sub-clinical depressive symptoms and children's anticipated cognitive and behavioral reactions to two written vignettes depicting emotion-eliciting stressors (i.e., fight with one's best friend and failure at a roller blade contest). Participants (N = 244) ranging in age between 10 and 13 were…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Depression (Psychology), Affective Behavior, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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