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Xianwei Meng; Junichi Oishi; Minori Onishi; Momoka Sakaguchi; Sota Yabushita; Yasuhiro Kanakogi – SAGE Open, 2024
Social learning is a fundamental mechanism for efficiently transferring and coordinating norms, skills, and sophisticated cultural information to individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying social learning remain unclear. To investigate this, we recruited adult participants (N = 103), who observed a model's performance in a…
Descriptors: Success, Failure, Socialization, Imitation
Fang, Jinjing; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Hamilton, Richard – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Several attempts have been made to examine students' academic emotions (AEs) in Western contexts, but less is known about how students' self-reported emotions vary over time. Aims: The study aimed to understand Chinese students' emotional responses to academic events and the impact of high-stakes testing on their AEs in the first year…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Success
Martin Majcík; Katarína Rozvadská; Tereza Vengrinová; Petr Novotný – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2024
The exit examination from upper-secondary school represents an essential part of the educational trajectory. However, the transition to the labour market or higher education can be complicated by failure. The qualitative study deals with repeatedly unsuccessful students who have struggled to pass the Czech exit exam called the Matura examination.…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, Academic Failure, Test Preparation
Elizabeth R. Peterson; Tanvi Sharma; Amy Bird; Annette M. E. Henderson; Varun Ramgopal; Elaine Reese; Susan M. B. Morton – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: Many people fear failure and making mistakes. This fear can be transmitted from parents to children, suggesting that parental communication regarding failures and setbacks may play a critical role in shaping a child's perception of mistakes. Aims: In this study, we investigated how everyday parent-child conversations about setbacks…
Descriptors: Mothers, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialogs (Language), Children
Gutierrez-Aguilar, Olger; Talavera-Mendoza, Fabiola; Chicaña-Huanca, Sandra; Cano-Villafuerte, Sharmila; Sotillo-Velásquez, José Antonio – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
The aim of this research has enabled us to establish the influential relationship between factors associated with e-learning, such as individual impact and depression, and the mediating role in psychological distress and computer anxiety related to the fear of failing an academic year in times of COVID-19 in university students at two universities…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Failure, Fear, COVID-19
Jon-Chao Hong; Jhen-Ni Ye; Jian-Hong Ye; Ling-Wen Kung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Attentional control theory indicates that concentration is considered an important variable that contributes to learning. There are some devices for players to practice their concentration, but there are few virtual reality (VR) designs which can increase the level of difficulty for students to discipline their mental concentration with…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Predictor Variables, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Laurent Brun; Pascal Pansu; Benoit Dompnier – Educational Psychology, 2024
Over the past fifty years, extensive research has examined the influence of causal attributions on cognitions, emotions, and behaviours in educational contexts. However, these studies often relied on inferences about dimensional properties of attributions, and not on students' perceptions of them. This study innovates by directly assessing these…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Failure, Success, Student Attitudes
Adrian Leis; Tetsushi Takemori; Keita Abe; Elisa Himori; Rei Suenaga; Kota Umino – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this study, the authors investigated the attitudes of Japanese junior high school students towards studying English from the perspective of the Self-worth Theory. A total of 383 students aged 12 to 15 years participated in the qualitative study. Students were required to write three essays about how they would react under hypothetical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Edwin Creely; Michael Henderson; Danah Henriksen; Renee Crawford – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Emerging research points to the importance of developing the capacities of teachers to help their students to be creative risk takers and to learn from productive failure. Facilitating this creative risk taking in learners has been shown to require expertise and a degree of risk taking on the part of both teachers and educational leaders. This…
Descriptors: Creativity, Risk, Failure, Productivity
Prakrisno Satrio; Lin Wu; Chen Cheng; Kuang Qian; Yi Ming Ho; Kususanto Ditto Prihadi – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This study examined the dynamic between perceived authoritarian parenting style (PAPS), and subjective wellbeing (SWB) among purposively recruited 423 college students in China. Expectancy value beliefs (EVB), fear of failure (FOF), and competitiveness were taken as mediators. The data were analyzed using Bootstrap method of 5000 sample and 95%…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Well Being, College Students
Boman, Jennifer; Yeo, Michelle – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Research in academic development more often articulates stories of success than of failure in our practice. Using a self-study methodology involving written reflections and analysis of recorded conversations, this article explores how two mid-career developers define and learn from feelings of failure in the context of group facilitation. Through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Failure, Facilitators (Individuals)
Yair, Gad; Aviram, Ohad – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This paper tells a story of Israeli male high schoolers who spend their adolescent years preparing for service in elite military units in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). They dream of serving in special units and begin training at 15 or 16 years old. After years of taxing preparations, at the age of 17 they arrive at the grueling military exams.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Males, Military Training
Jerrim, John – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
A substantial body of research suggests that young people's emotions -- both positive and negative -- are linked to a wide range of future outcomes. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the link between young people's positive and negative emotions and their performance in high-stakes examinations. Using Programme for…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests
Kristen M. Lucibello; Catherine M. Sabiston; Ross M. Murray; Eva Pila; Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos; Jenna D. Gilchrist – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: The present study examined the between- and within-person associations among negative weight-related experiences, weight bias internalization, and body shame, embarrassment, and pride in adolescents. Methods: Participants were 93 Canadian students (M[subscript age] = 15.54, 59.10% girls, 40.86% white) who completed a 5-day daily…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Self Concept, Body Weight, Social Bias
Megan J. Magier; Madelyn Law; Tanya Martini; Sarah Pennisi; Kristen M. Lucibello; Karen A. Patte – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Objective: This study aimed to better understand the mental health experiences of students as they prepared to transition out of university. Participants: Participants included 18 recently graduated students from a Canadian university. Methods: Virtual one-on-one semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed following the…
Descriptors: Universities, College Graduates, Mental Health, Self Concept