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Julia Hormuth; Marlene Ferencz; Jutta Heikkilä; Taija Ihamäki – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2025
Student academic success plays an important role in higher education institutions, as it is often used as a core measure of university performance. Internationally, there is an extensive literature on the predictors of academic success. In addition to intellectual variables, the effects of psychological factors have received increased attention.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Ajda Aylin Can – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
Students receiving instrument education in institutions providing vocational music education are expected to enhance their self-efficacy perceptions regarding their instruments, identify their motivations, and develop strategies for their learning approaches. These efforts aim to address deficiencies encountered during the educational process and…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Soysal, Dilek; Bani-Yaghoub, Majid; Riggers-Piehl, Tiffani A. – Pedagogical Research, 2022
The relationships between math anxiety and other variables such as students' motivation and confidence have been extensively studied. The main purpose of the present study was to employ a machine learning approach to provide a deeper understanding of variables associated with math anxiety. Specifically, we applied classification and regression…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, STEM Education, Predictor Variables, Self Esteem
Norrgran, Cynthia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the online university students' attitudes toward nonmedical prescription stimulant (NPS) use for cognitive enhancement, recreation, or as a negative effector. While there have been numerous studies done on the physical campus university students' attitudes toward NPS use, there has not been a study done on the online…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Virtual Universities, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Vural-Batik, Meryem – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
This research was conducted to investigate the predictive role of homophobia and unconditional self-acceptance on respect of differences in psychological counselor candidates. Participants were 239 psychological counselor candidates. The Respect of Differences Scale, the Homophobia Scale, and the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Scale were used to…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Bias, Self Concept, Counselor Training
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Eshetu, Fassil; Guye, Adem; Kelemework, Getahun; Abebe, Sileshi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
This study aimed at assessing the level and determinants of students' vulnerability to attrition in Arba Minch University, Southern Ethiopia using a random sample of 547 students. The study revealed that, out of 547 sample students, 207 (38%) students were found highly vulnerable to attrition, 51 (9%) students were moderately vulnerable and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attrition, Predictor Variables
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Yockey, R. Andrew; King, Keith A.; Vidourek, Rebecca A. – Journal of Drug Education, 2020
Alcohol use among college students is a national health concern. The epidemiology of alcohol use among Middle Eastern college students remains to be investigated. This study sought to understand the epidemiology of recent alcohol use among Middle Eastern college students. We use data from the 2017 to 2018 Healthy Minds Study to identify predictors…
Descriptors: College Students, Epidemiology, Drinking, Predictor Variables
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Cheng, Wen – Educational Psychology, 2019
To determine intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for work among college students, an online survey was conducted to collect participants' self-reported motivation and personality traits, as well as academic performance in samples of 310 American and 686 Taiwanese college student respondents. Data suggest that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Incentives, Personality Traits
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Kanat, Sevtap – International Education Studies, 2019
Today, with the developing technology, the use of computers, mobile phones and the internet has become indispensable tools of people's lives. Technology has created new risks while facilitating the living conditions. Especially, there are various addiction concepts that negatively affect human life. Digital game addiction has been added to the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Correlation, Communication Skills
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Al-Tamimi, Eman Mohammad Reda Ali; Al-Khawaldeh, Naseer Ahmad – International Education Studies, 2016
The study has examined the correlation between emotional intelligence, social skills, and religious behavior among university female students, since it had been noticed that there was escalation in the frequency of some behavioral and emotional problems such as vandalism, aggression, social withdrawal, weakness of social relations, patterns of…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, Religion, Females
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Park, Sanghoon; Yun, Heoncheol – Distance Education, 2017
This study examines the relationships between students' academic levels, the use of motivational regulation strategies, and cognitive learning strategies. A total of 141 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in online distance courses participated in the study. The findings show that students use different motivational regulation strategies…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Online Courses, Distance Education
Aidoo, Bona – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Educating students to relate harmoniously with people from different backgrounds has become an important agenda for student affairs professional because of the increasingly diverse nature of the American society. The purpose of this study was to assess how American and international college students develop mature interpersonal relationship…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes