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Lindsay N. Johnson; Robin Fierstein; Stacey C. Cahn; Amy L. Hoch; Lisa N. Twardzik – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
This article explores the implementation of Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) in a University or College Counseling Setting (UCCS). The authors review the rationale for including RO DBT in a UCCS and the process of implementing the treatment at their center. This paper evaluates this newly implemented treatment by examining…
Descriptors: College Students, School Counselors, Counselor Training, Mental Health Workers
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Bornschlegl, Madeleine; Meldrum, Kathryn; Caltabiano, Nerina J. – Review of Education, 2020
Universities admit increasingly diverse student cohorts with varying academic entry standards. To address students' varying academic prerequisites, academic support services -- such as literacy and numeracy support -- are offered to ensure student success. However, students often do not engage. Aimed at mapping variables related to a student's…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Support Services, Student Diversity, Age Differences
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Annacontini, Giuseppe; Paiano, Anna Paola – Digital Education Review, 2019
In this paper we intend to present a tool for self-assess, support and improve reflective thinking in the educators towards the use of digital storytelling. First, we present an overview on the theoretical framework for conceptualizing a reflective educator, who needs to have a conscious approach on the practice and inquiries on the ethical…
Descriptors: Reflection, Story Telling, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Gordon-Hickey, Susan; Lemley, Trey – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
For decades, academic libraries made efforts to provide study environments differing in acoustic environment. The present study aimed to provide an evidence basis for this practice by comparing background noise acceptance and personality factors of two groups of college-aged students self identified as preferring quiet or background noise when…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Physical Environment, Acoustics
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de la Fuente, Jesús; López, Mireia; Zapata, Lucía; Martínez-Vicente, Jose Manuel; Vera, Manuel Mariano; Solinas, Giulliana; Fadda, Salvatore – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
There has been growing research interest in achievement emotions in university teaching-learning processes in recent years. While their importance has been firmly established, there continues to be a need for assessment and intervention models. The objective of this report is to present the "Competency Model for Studying, Learning and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Coping
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Denny, Katherine G.; Steiner, Hans – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
When under conditions of high demand and allostatic load, are happiness and satisfaction in four domains (family, friends, academics, recreation) influenced more by external or internal factors? Do student-athletes who lead exceedingly complicated lives report happiness as a function of athletic achievement or internal disposition? Stanford…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Athletes, Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits
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Souheaver, Gary T.; Schuldt, W. John – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Studied effects of suggestibility on performance within self- and external-control conditions. Subjects were assigned to experimental conditions--self-control, external-control, and no reward. Response rates of self and external groups were highest. Response rates of high-suggestibles in self-control conditions were not significantly different…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Students, Hypnosis, Locus of Control
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Tobias, Lester L.; MacDonald, Marian L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Obese undergraduate women (N = 100) were assigned from stratified blocks to one of five experimental conditions. Both the weight reduction manual and behavioral contract treatments were significantly effective at posttreatment and follow-up; the self-determination group did not differ from either control group. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Weight, College Students, Counseling Effectiveness
Foulds, Melvin L.; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1974
Fifteen college students participated in a 24-hour marathon group and responded to the Internal-External Scale immediately before and after the experience. The results disclosed significant positive change at the .001 level in perceived locus of internal-external control of reinforcement expectancies in the direction of increased internality.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Experimental Psychology
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Hurley, John D. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
College students were randomly assigned to one of four groups: hypnotic treatment, biofeedback treatment, trophotropic treatment, and control. Results indicated hypnosis was more effective in lowering anxiety levels. With regard to increasing ego strength, both the hypnotic and biofeedback training groups proved to be significant. Presented at the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Dienstbier, Richard A. – 1975
Cheating behavior has been found to relate to emotion-attribution explanations. Prior research with second-grade children has indicated that increased self-control occurs in a watching task when the child's emotional response is attributed to internal rather than external actions. In the present study, freshman women (N=221) took a reading…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cheating, College Students
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Gable, Robert K.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This study examined differences in vocational maturity of women across different levels of internal-external control and typical versus atypical vocational choice. Results indicated that internally controlled women had significantly higher vocational maturity than externally controlled women; no differences were found in vocational maturity…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
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Yukselturk, Erman; Bulut, Safure – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This study analyzed the factors that affect student success in an online computer programming course. The study had two with two main objectives. The first was to examine relationships among selected variables (gender, age, educational level, locus of control, and learning style), motivational beliefs (intrinsic goal orientation, extrinsic goal…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Cognitive Style, Self Efficacy, Online Courses
Millman, Howard L. – 1978
Described is a program entitled "Creating a Safe Space," designed to remove consciously the major elements which contribute to college students' experiences and feelings that they are victims of extended controls. The course is described as: (1) an experience of both the removal of extended controls and evaluations and the addition of a new…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, College Students, Guides
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Dishman, Rod K.; Steinhardt, Mary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1990
Discusses a study that compared internal health locus of control (IHLOC) with internal exercise locus of control for predicting college students' activity. Results indicate an independent influence of IHLOC on free-living physical activity and suggest that testing adjust for fitness, barriers to physical activity, and outcome-expectancy values.…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Health Promotion, Individual Power
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