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COVID-19 School Closures and Chinese Children's School Readiness: Results from the Natural Experimental Data
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Tony Xing Tan; Joy Huanhuan Wang; Yi Zhou – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Aims: To determine the associations between COVID-19 school closures and school readiness skills for Chinese kindergarteners. Design: We utilized the natural experimental condition created by local COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 (Study 1) to compare school readiness skills of children whose kindergartens were closed for 5 months (Group 1) with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Readiness, School Closing
Academic Success Is about Self-Efficacy Rather than Frequency of Use of the Learning Management System
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Broadbent, Jaclyn – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Previous studies have investigated the association between the frequency of student learning management system (LMS) use (logins, discussion board use, resources used, etc.) and academic achievement. These studies indicate that low LMS use by students is likely to result in less academic success. However, these models fail to take into account…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Self Efficacy, Integrated Learning Systems
Level and Change in Perceived Control Predict 19-Year Mortality: Findings from the Americans' Changing Lives Study
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Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Perceived control plays an important role for health across adulthood and old age. However, little is known about the factors that account for such associations and whether changes in control (or control trajectory) uniquely predict major health outcomes over and above mean levels of control. Using data from the nationwide Americans' Changing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Death, Predictor Variables, Mortality Rate
Sense of Coherence: Examination of the Construct.
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Dana, Richard H.; And Others – 1985
The Sense of Coherence (SOC) construct, proposed by Antonovsky, has the following three components: (1) Comprehensibility (COMP), the cognitive sense that stimuli confronted convey structured and clear information; (2) Manageability (MAN), the sense that resources at one's disposal are adequate for successful coping; and (3) Meaningfulness (MEAN),…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Correlation, Diseases, Etiology
A Quasi Meta Analysis of the Health Locus of Control Construct.
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Reeh, H. Elise; Reilly, Karen J. – 1995
Numerous theories have attempted to explain possible factors relating to an individual's propensity for engaging or failing to engage in preventative health behaviors. The Health Locus of Control (HLOC) is now considered to be an important variable for understanding an individual's likelihood for following health promoting behaviors. This paper…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Health
Health Locus of Control and School Achievement in Middle School Students.
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Daniel, Larry G.; And Others – 1993
The present study investigated the relationship among middle school students' self-perceived locus of control, their school achievement, and their school attendance. A cohort of 265 seventh-grade students was administered the children's version of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC-C) scales, which measure health locus of control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cohort Analysis, Correlation