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Katie Welch; Katherine Hyde Brott; Jennifer C. Veilleux – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The purpose of these studies was to examine whether college students' beliefs about themselves (i.e., self-compassion and beliefs about emotions) could be mechanisms explaining the relationship between problematic parenting behaviors (helicopter parenting and parental invalidation) and outcomes including perfectionism, affective…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Parenting Styles
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Ebenezer Bamfo Aidoo; Ronald Osei Mensah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study of important concepts like academic accomplishment, locus of control, and self-esteem has long been a focus of intensive research in the discipline of educational psychology. The study looked into the connections between students' academic achievement, locus of control, and self-esteem at selected colleges in Greater Ada and Accra in…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Colleges
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Wang, Li-Yu; Huang, Jian-Hao – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
This study explores the relationship among the internal locus of control, entrepreneurial alertness, entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial intentions of college students. The scales of internal locus of control, entrepreneurial alertness, entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial intention have been used…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Entrepreneurship
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M. M. Sulphey; Martin Klepek – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the relationship between antecedents of Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) in female students. The study uses locus of control, Machiavellianism, resilience, and mindfulness as independent variables. Data for the study was collected using standardized self-rating questionnaires on 854 female students as a unit of…
Descriptors: Females, Entrepreneurship, Factor Analysis, Correlation
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Gülçin Güler Öztekin; Samet Ata; Merve Cosgun Demirdag – School Psychology International, 2025
There is little evidence regarding the impact of helicopter parenting (HP) on adolescents' school adjustment (SA). This study examined gender differences in maternal/paternal HP, internal/external academic locus of control (ALC) and SA, and the mediating effect of internal/external ALC in the relationship between maternal/paternal HP and SA in…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Fathers
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Sara Sohr-Preston; Stefanie Boswell; Lauren Jordan; Shelby Morain – College Student Journal, 2022
This investigation examined whether academic entitlement (AE) and academic dishonesty (AD) increased significantly over the course of the first semester of university coursework. AE and AD were measured at three time points over students' first semester in university and examined for change. While both increased, only AE's increase was…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Students, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Tanya Marroquin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effect of introducing an environmental education (EE) in three classrooms (C1, C2, C3) using three different pedagogy methods and if student's personalities determine how the information is perceived. A teacher-focused classroom (C1), a student-focused classroom (C2), and a third classroom used labs and hands-on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Manichander, T. – Online Submission, 2020
The present study was aimed to find out the relationship between academic procrastination and locus of control of graduate students. Survey method was conducted on a stratified random sample of 200 graduate students. In order to collect data, Academic Procrastination Scale (APS-GSBL) developed by Dr. Savita Gupta and Liyaqat Bashir (2018) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Behavior, Locus of Control
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Fromuth, Mary Ellen; Bass, Jeffery E.; Kelly, David B.; Davis, Teresa L.; Chan, Kin Leong – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The current study examined the relationship of academic entitlement with student attitudes (e.g., locus of control, motivation) and academic behavior. Participants were 272 (96 men, 176 women) undergraduate students enrolled in general psychology and recruited from a psychology research pool. In groups, participants individually completed a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, Student Behavior, Correlation
Bates, Morris L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Locus of control is a psychological attribute not often discussed in the community college setting. The purpose of this study sought to investigate the impact Locus of control and co-variates age, gender, ethnicity, enrollment status, and employment status had on community college student persistence. Study participants were First-year community…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Katie Burke; Melissa Fanshawe – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Higher education has seen a significant shift in the last two decades, with contemporary students representing more diverse cohorts who are increasingly balancing study alongside competing life-roles and responsibilities. Given the rise in student attrition and concerns regarding engagement, we saw a visible need to consider how our students could…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Locus of Control, College Students, Student Diversity
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Günel, Ilker – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the locus of control and the sports manager behavior levels of the students studying in the department of sports management of the faculty of sport sciences. The study was conducted by the correlational survey method, one of the quantitative research designs. Population of the study…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Locus of Control, Correlation, Gender Differences
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Lauermann, Fani; ten Hagen, Inga – Educational Psychologist, 2021
Teachers' teaching-related competence beliefs such as perceived teaching ability and self-efficacy have been linked to their occupational well-being and external evaluations of instructional quality. However, researchers have struggled to establish a reliable empirical link between teachers' competence beliefs and students' academic outcomes. To…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Characteristics, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Can, Süleyman; Durukan, Erdil – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Academic locus of control has an important place in explaining students' behaviors in educational settings. The purpose of the current study is to determine the level of the pedagogical formation students' academic locus of control and to investigate whether this level varies depending on some variables. The study employed the survey model, one of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Locus of Control, Foreign Countries
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Tahrir; Nurdin, Farid Soleh; Damayanti, Ida Royani – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The background of this research is the inconsistency of the results of previous research about the factors that influence moral disengagement. This study aims to determine the role of critical thinking as a mediator of the influence of internal locus of control on student moral disengagement. The population in this study were 1560 students of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Moral Values, Locus of Control, Correlation
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