This study examines Grammarly's utility as a writing assistant for enhancing higher education students' writing skills. University writing centers and classroom settings now incorporate Grammarly as a resource for writing assistance and there is a need to understand how students view its use and its link to help-seeking behavior. 476 university…

This qualitative study explored the impact of food insecurity on college students' academic performance and sense of belonging at a Midwestern university. Utilizing action research and a phenomenological design, the study gathered in-depth data through focus group discussions with students who experienced food insecurity. Key themes emerged,…

Help seeking is a self-regulated learning strategy, and peer help is an important form of interaction in online education. Yet, students often do not seek help even at the cost of lower performance. To understand the factors behind online students' commitment to peer help, this study implemented a peer-help discussion forum in an online course and…

Objective: This study explored the predictive relationship among international student trauma responses, visa status anxiety, and perceived institutional support. Researchers also sought to understand the relationship between help seeking behaviors and trauma exposure responses. Participants: International students (n = 172) from U.S. colleges and…

Objective: Examine students' awareness of medical amnesty policies and the influence of policy awareness on the expected consequences of bystander help seeking in alcohol-related emergencies among student-athletes and non-athletes. Participants: 1,012 college students. Methods: Spearman's correlation and chi-square tests were used to examine…

Online help-seeking refers to a learner's willingness to seek help in online learning environments. Counterintuitively, studies of help-seeking have found mixed results for the relationship between help-seeking and academic achievement. We hypothesized that these mixed findings might, in part, be accounted for by the confidence level of the…

The purpose of the current study is to determine Turkish as a foreign language learners' tendency to use communication strategies. Quantitative and qualitative research models were used together in the study. The survey method was used in the qualitative part and the phenomenological method was used in the quantitative part of the study. The study…

This study was aimed at understanding students' academic self-concept, academic help-seeking behaviors, and beliefs in counseling service effectiveness. Based on a correlational research design, a closed-ended questionnaire was administrated to 182 college students. Independent-sample t-test revealed that male students' average score was…

Academic achievement is considered as one of the major factors in the learning process, as it is one of the complex variables that have an important influence on learning. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between academic motivation, academic help-seeking and academic achievement. A total of 437 university…

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has made every higher education institution in Taiwan implement online learning. Given the circumstance, supporting students in their online self-regulated learning (SRL) became more critical to enabling students' learning maintenance and learning success. The present study explores the impact of instructor…

This study aims to explore the relationship of Gender and Sexual Minority (GSM) college students with academic stress through the use of counseling and how this may differ based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, this study examined frequency of career concerns among GSM college students. Further this study aimed to determine…

In this study, the purpose is to examine to what extent the individuals' self-stigma and self-construal predict their attitudes towards seeking psychological help. The sample group of the study was made of 377 adults aged 20-50 years. The data obtained from the scales based on self-reports of the participants were analyzed. Findings showed that…

Much research exists pertaining to psychological help-seeking behaviors and intentions in the United States (U.S.; Levinson & Ifrah, 2010; Vogel & Wester, 2003; Wendt & Shafer, 2015; AEgisdottir & Gerstein, 2009), yet little research considers comprehensive models of psychological help-seeking behaviors and intentions in the United…

Nearly all college students require some academic assistance throughout their learning experiences. Rather than a dependent act, help-seeking is a self-regulated and motivated strategy; however, there are mixed findings regarding the relationship between academic help-seeking and academic achievement. Thus, the current study used meta-analytic…

The researchers investigated the influence of students counselling expectations on their behaviours in efforts to seek psychological help in National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The descriptive research design was used for this study. Four research questions and four hypotheses were formulated. Stratified sampling was used to select six…