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A Literature Review on the Strategies Implemented by Higher Education Institutions from 2010 to 2020 to Foster Pro-Environmental Behavior of Students
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Bertossi, Alberto; Marangon, Francesco – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Changing the present behavior of individuals toward a more sustainable lifestyle is a complex task requiring a well-established strategy and institutional commitment. The purpose of this paper is to understand the strategic steps, as proposed by Steg and Vlek (2009), that has been mostly focused on by higher education institutions (HEIs)…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Conservation (Environment), Higher Education, Student Behavior
Psychological Contract Profiling for Managing the Learning Experience of Higher Education Students
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Horváth, László – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The quality agenda of higher education has a clear focus on teaching and learning. In this study, we apply a service marketing approach (GAP model) to discover the psychological contract (implicit expectations and obligations) of Hungarian higher education students (N = 356), exploring their expectations, satisfaction, obligations and self-image.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Psychological Patterns, Contracts
Mentoring: A Typology of Costs for Higher Education Faculty
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Lunsford, Laura G.; Baker, Vicki; Griffin, Kimberly A.; Johnson, W. Brad – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In this theoretical paper, we apply a social exchange framework to understand mentors' negative experiences. We propose a typology of costs, categorized according to psychosocial and career mentoring functions. Our typology generates testable research propositions. Psychosocial costs of mentoring are burnout, anger, and grief or loss. Career…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Mentors, Social Exchange Theory
Differentiation of University Freshmen in Arts and Science on the General Occupational Themes of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Meuser, Peter E.; McInnis, Charles E. – Canadian Counsellor, 1977
Occupational personality types of Arts and Science freshmen were compared employing the six General Occupational Themes of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory in a multiple-discriminant analysis. Subjects were 202 male and 158 female freshmen. Univariate analyses of variance between groups on all Themes indicated significant mean differences.…
Descriptors: Classification, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
A Typology for Interpersonal Situations or, How Do I Class Thee, Let Me Count the Ways.
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Biggers, J. Thompson; Masterson, John T. – 1983
It is axiomatic that context influences interpersonal behaviors, yet communication researchers have had limited success in generating a set of conceptual or operational definitions for the situation variable. Two studies were conducted to examine emotion-eliciting qualities as the basis for such a typology and the relationship of situations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Communication Research, Higher Education
A Methodological Contribution to Identifying Depressed College Students.
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Funabiki, Dean; And Others – 1981
Research directed toward examining clinical depression among college students requires valid criterion measures for identifying depressed individuals. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the most widely-used self-report screening instrument for identifying depressed college students, has been criticized for its heavy emphasis on cognitive items…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes