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Clara Margaça; José Carlos Sánchez-García; Brizeida Hernández Sánchez; Susana Lucas Mangas – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: To protect the environment and society, research on responsible behavior and personal values has increased. Values have been identified as important for understanding and predicting environmental preservation behaviors. The purpose of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the Environmental Portrait Value Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Universities, Conservation (Environment), Altruism, Self Concept
Wimmer, Sigrid; Paechter, Manuela; Lackner, Helmut K.; Papousek, Ilona – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Exams often trigger avoidance motivation and a tendency to withdraw; instead, an approach-oriented motivational state would be more desirable, since this encourages an invigorated and persistent approach to tasks. This study investigated the role of academic self-concept on the activation of relative approach versus avoidance motivation during the…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Concept, Student Motivation, Tests
Julia Brooks; D. Catherine Walker; Kristen Murray – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Focusing on body functionality -- what the body can do -- may benefit women's body image. This pilot study examined the effects of focusing on body functionality appreciation during an audio-guided mirror gazing task (F-MGT). Participants: 101 college women, M(SD)[subscript AGE] = 19.49(1.31), were alternately assigned to F-MGT or a…
Descriptors: Human Body, Self Concept, Pilot Projects, Females
Farley, Jennifer; Gallagher, Jennifer; Bruna, Katherine Richardson – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2020
The term 'upstanding' encompasses actions and behaviors grounded in one's defense of their own beliefs and others. While such broad application of the term has merit, from a critical education perspective it lacks direction. To efficaciously address injustice, upstanding action must go beyond one's beliefs. A directional application of upstanding…
Descriptors: Bullying, Honors Curriculum, Social Justice, Social Structure
Posner, Barry Z. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
Research in corporate settings has demonstrated the importance of leaders seeking feedback on such dimensions as credibility, effectiveness, engagement, and productivity. This study looked at feedback seeking behavior by student leaders. Explored were the extent to which feedback-seeking impacted how people felt when working with leaders, and how…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Feedback (Response), Age Differences, Gender Differences
Sayed Ismail, Hanan Mohamed; Dhaidan Al-Dhaidan, Al-Humidi Mohamed – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2020
The Personal intelligence is one of the multiple intelligences concerned with individuals' internal characteristics. It plays a major role in understanding of oneself in all one's aspects being aware of one's abilities and acting accordingly. personal intelligence also reveals the extent of individual's honesty with themselves and enhances their…
Descriptors: Therapy, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Change, Multiple Intelligences
Inon, Magen – Ethics and Education, 2019
Research shows that various pharmaceuticals can offer modest cognition enhancing effects for healthy individuals. These finding have caused some academics to support liberal use of pharmacological cognitive enhancement (PCE) in schools and universities. This approach partially arises from arguments implying there is little moral justification for…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Drug Use, Cognitive Ability, Moral Values
Toure-Tillery, Maferima; Fishbach, Ayelet – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Achieving goals often requires the completion of sequential actions, such as finishing a series of assignments to pass a class. In the course of pursuing such goals, people can decide how closely to follow their personal standards for each action. We propose that actions at the beginning and end of a sequence appear more diagnostic of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Standards, Religion, Ethics
Bennett, Trevor Hugh; Holloway, Katy Rose; Brookman, Fiona; Parry, Odette; Gorden, Caroline – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2014
Aims: The aim of the paper is to investigate the extent to which university students misuse prescription drugs, using techniques of neutralization to understand and explain their behaviour. Methods: The study was based on an email survey of students currently registered at a university in north Wales which supports widening access and has one of…
Descriptors: College Students, Drug Abuse, Drug Therapy, Foreign Countries
Thomsen, Jens Peter; Munk, Martin D.; Eiberg-Madsen, Misja; Hansen, Gro Inge – Comparative Education Review, 2013
This article studies the educational strategies adopted by university students from different class backgrounds in a Scandinavian welfare regime. Studies show distinct differences among classes relating to economic considerations, risk-averse behavior, and patterns of socialization among university students. We investigate these differences…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, College Students, Working Class
Barisone, Monica; And Others – 1996
The various ways in which psychology students can move from the realm of cognitive content to theory-based professionalism are explored here. Students in an undergraduate psychology class were told to formulate a behavior plan for graduation. It is believed that the cognitive "content" of the psychology student can be used to facilitate…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Educational Strategies, Higher Education

Touhey, John C. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Inhibition

Taylor, Karen M.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Developed a measure of self-efficacy expectations with regard to 50 behaviors required in career decision making and examined the relationships of career decision-making self-efficacy to several components of vocational indecision for 346 subjects. Results indicated that college students expressed considerable confidence in their ability to make…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making

Baumeister, Roy F.; Jones, Edward E. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978
This study, concerned with distinguishing between the public and private determinants of self-presentational strategy, tests the hypothesis that one consequence of another's prior knowledge about a person is an implicit pressure on that person to act in a way consistent with what the other already knows about him or her. Subjects were 90…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Personality Assessment

Stein, Marsha Lomis; Stone, Gerald L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
Assessed the impact of the conceptual level (CL) matching model within a counseling situation. High-CL matching predictions were supported in expressions of self-awareness and satisfaction. Low-CL matching predictions were supported in areas of satisfaction and ratings of counselor helpfulness. Different behavioral outcomes and a flexible…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Concept Formation, Conceptual Tempo