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Anna L. Sherman; Amy L. Stamates; Lisa Weyandt – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Background: ADHD and alcohol use are prevalent among college students, but few studies have examined internal restlessness (i.e., the mental discomfort experienced when suppressing hyperactive behaviors) in relation to alcohol use. Consequently, the current study sought to examine a path model testing associations between internal restlessness,…
Descriptors: Drinking, College Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Psychological Patterns
Alissa Kay Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study sought to explore the lesser-known dark side of flow in academics. Although flow is typically viewed as a positive experience, its outcomes are not always beneficial. In order to carry out this endeavor, a sequential explanatory design was utilized to assess the potential negative consequences associated with flow in the domain…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Attention, Psychological Patterns
Yanhui Mao; Xinyi Luo; Shujun Wang; Zhuozhu Mao; Mei Xie; Marino Bonaiuto – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Existing research has linked individuals' flow experience - a positive affective and cognitive state of deep immersion and engagement in daily activities - and their well-being, particularly among university students. A growing number of longitudinal studies have further contributed to this understanding. However, limited attention has…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Attention, Student Welfare, College Students
Guo, Zhengyan; Chang, Yuan-Cheng – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
Boredom is a topic worth studying, especially the impact of boredom on college students' study is worthy of further study. This research explained the related concepts of boredom firstly. According to the research content of previous researchers, boredom was divided into external influences and internal influences. The researcher also combined the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, College Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Yao, Shenghui; Xie, Lifen; Chen, Yiji – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
To explore the effect of active social media use (ASMU) on the mechanisms of flow experience (FE), 433 questionnaires incorporating an active social media use scale, academic self-efficacy (ASE) scale, and flow experience scale were collected from college students. This study is expected to enrich flow experience theory and provide a foundation…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Media, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Liping Deng; Yujie Zhou; Jaclyn Broadbent – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
As digital devices become ubiquitous in learning contexts, they have become the main source of distraction that leads to distractive multitasking. This underscores the growing importance of self-regulated learning as a means of combating distraction and persisting in learning. This study aims to bridge the perspectives of self-regulation and…
Descriptors: Attention, Self Management, College Students, Foreign Countries
Canpolat, Murat – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
Daydreaming is a type of mental time travel into the future. Although many cultures consider daydreaming a waste of time, the vast majority of people spend part of the day daydreaming. The age at which daydreaming is most intense is self-reported to be between 17 and 29. In this qualitative research, I wanted to find out what university students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, Attention Control, Foreign Countries
Pearson, Andrew D.; Young, phd, Chelsie M.; Shank, Faith; Neighbors, Clayton – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Smartphones, while useful, can also function as a source of distraction from daily life and may reduce life satisfaction by inhibiting concentration and interrupting attention to ongoing tasks, thoughts, and social interactions. Objectives: The current study tested whether interruptions in flow mediate associations between problematic smartphone…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Life Satisfaction, Behavior Problems
Espeleta, Hannah C.; Taylor, Danielle L.; Kraft, Jacob D.; Grant, DeMond M. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Research attempting to identify pathways from childhood maltreatment to adulthood posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) implicates cognitive vulnerabilities that may increase risk for mental health concerns. The present study examined two cognitive vulnerabilities and their relation to PTSS amongst individuals with and without childhood…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Early Experience, Late Adolescents
Hayes, William M.; Wedell, Douglas H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, decision makers learn the values of actions in a context-dependent fashion. Although context dependence has many advantages, it can lead to suboptimal preferences when choice options are extrapolated beyond their original encoding contexts. Here, we tested whether we could manipulate context dependence in RL…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Learning Processes, Attention, Context Effect
Christine Harvey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The landscape of higher education has evolved to include students from diverse economic, cultural, and neurodiverse backgrounds. A notable increase has been observed in the enrollment of students with disabilities, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) qualitative study…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Psychological Patterns, Educational Experience, Students with Disabilities
Zhang, Han; Gao, Tingting; Hu, Qing; Zhao, Lin; Wang, Xiaolei; Sun, Xiaohan; Li, Shujun – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Given the serious effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on academic burnout, this study aims to examine the multiple mediating roles of negative emotions and phubbing in the relationship between parental marital conflict and academic burnout. A total of 1353 college students participated in this study. The results showed that parental marital…
Descriptors: College Students, Parents, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction
Thomson, Paula; Jaque, Victoria – Roeper Review, 2023
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) was studied (N = 361) in pre-professional/professional dancers, college athletes, and active participants. The relationship among MD, overexcitability (OE), and emotion regulation was examined. Results indicated that MD was associated with imaginational OE and negatively with sensual OE. Difficulty with emotion…
Descriptors: Dance, Professional Personnel, College Students, Athletes
Kraft, Jacob D.; Grant, DeMond M.; White, Evan J.; Taylor, Danielle L.; Frosio, Kristen E. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Social anxiety and depression are commonly comorbid and cause significant impairment in college students. Past research suggests that both poor attentional control and increased rumination are related to these disorders and independently mediate their relationship. Theory suggests that social anxiety loads working memory, thus decreasing…
Descriptors: College Students, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Comorbidity
Laslo-Roth, Roni; Bareket-Bojmel, Liad; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
This study examined the predictive role of attention deficit disorders (ADHD) on the experience of loneliness among college students during the move to distance learning and social distancing policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study examined a serial multiple mediation of students' experiences with distance learning, perceived social…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Experience, Distance Education, College Students