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Download full textGergana Sakarski – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
Homeschooling, as a controversial educational practice, raises many questions about its outcomes, which still remain unanswered. The homeschooling population has been growing over the past years, as has interest in this educational paradigm. The increased accessibility and use of emerging information technologies also hold significance in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Experience, Educational Experience, Attitudes
Direct linkSu, Mengchen; Lee, Jaekyung – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2023
Under current test-driven educational accountability policies, there has been a debate about school effectiveness. As conventionally measured by test scores in academic subjects, school effectiveness is often limited and potentially biased. With increasing emphasis on preparing students with both cognitive and noncognitive competencies,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Holistic Approach, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
Elena Ayala-Hurtado – Sociology of Education, 2025
Graduating from college is widely associated with social and personal advancement, yet many young graduates are not experiencing these benefits. Drawing on 127 interviews with college graduates in the United States and Spain who face employment precarity or economic instability, this study asks: How do these graduates understand their social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Occupational Aspiration, Self Actualization
Cheema, Sohaila; Maisonneuve, Patrick; Abraham, Amit; Chaabna, Karima; Tom, Abdallah; Ibrahim, Hania; Mushannen, Tasnim; Yousuf, Wajiha; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Mamtani, Ravinder – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: University students face high levels of stress-related factors, such as an unfamiliar environment, challenging workload, and uncertainty about their ability to succeed. Participants: A total of 370 students in Qatar who consented to participate between February 2017 and February 2018. Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Stress Variables, College Students
Shelley Fairbairn; Catherine Wilson Gillespie – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2022
This international comparative qualitative study builds on prior research into the lived experiences of teacher educators in the United States and India. This study focuses on the ways in which faculty in both contexts engage in Feed My Soul activities. Ten participants from each country were interviewed to better understand what kinds of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teaching Experience, Job Satisfaction
Shirley, Dennis – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This article develops a critique of contemporary understandings and practices related to well-being in education. It proposes a fuller development of wholeness and purpose that supplements and goes beyond the new well-being agenda. Design/Approach/Methods: This article draws upon a document analysis of conceptual and policy frameworks…
Descriptors: Well Being, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Chung Hyewon; Kim, Jung-In; Jung, Eunjin; Park, Soyoung – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) aims to provide comparative data on 15-year-olds' academic performance and well-being. The purpose of the current study is to explore and compare the variables that predict the reading literacy and life satisfaction of U.S. and South Korean students. The random forest algorithm, which is a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Predictor Variables, Literacy, Life Satisfaction
Khulud Alkhalaf; Alean Al-Krenawi; Salman Elbedour – Journal of International Students, 2024
This study examines reverse acculturative stress among Saudi students returning to their home country after studying in the USA. A study on Saudi students is particularly important due to scant empirical attention on Middle Eastern students. Given the population size of returning Saudi students, it is worth analyzing their adaptation to their home…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Cultural Differences, Social Values
Ahn, Jina; Kim, Hye-Weon; Lee, Jee-Yon – Journal of Career Development, 2021
This study examined how a career calling is linked to life satisfaction among undergraduate students in the United States and South Korea. Using structural equation modeling, we tested the mediating role of core self-evaluations, work volition, and work hope on the calling-satisfaction link. Supporting prior research, perceiving a calling was…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Career Choice, Professional Identity, Values
Abubakar, Amina; van de Vijver, Fons; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; He, Jia; Adams, Byron; Aldhafri, Said; Aydinli-Karakulak, Arzu; Arasa, Josephine; Boer, Diana; Celenk, Ozgur; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Fischer, Ronald; Mbebeb, Fomba Emmanuel; Frías, María Teresa; Fresno, Andrés; Gillath, Omri; Harb, Charles; Handani, Penny; Hapunda, Given; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kosic, Marianna; Looh, Joseph Lah; Mazrui, Lubna; Mendia, Rafael Emilio; Murugami, Margaret; Mason-Li, Mei; Pandia, Weny Savitry; Perdomo, Cristina; Schachner, Maja; Sim, Samantha; Spencer, Rosario; Suryani, Angela; Tair, Ergyul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Attitude Measures, Adolescents, Young Adults
Golestaneh, Hamideh – ProQuest LLC, 2015
In this phenomenological study, thematic analysis was used to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of six Iranian-Americans who migrate Iran for safety and a better life. The researcher assessed the participants' journey phase by phase, to get a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. Overall, emigrating from Iran had both negative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Immigrants, Phenomenology
Xiao, Jing Jian; Newman, Barbara M.; Chu, Bie-shuein – Youth & Society, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with career preparation of high school students in four countries: China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The human bioecological theory was used as a framework to examine personal, process, and context factors associated with career preparation of the adolescents. Data were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Sirgy, M. Joseph; Gurel-Atay, Eda; Webb, Dave; Cicic, Muris; Husic-Mehmedovic, Melika; Ekici, Ahmet; Herrmann, Andreas; Hegazy, Ibrahim; Lee, Dong-Jin; Johar, J. S. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The literature in economic psychology and quality-of-life studies alludes to a negative relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. In contrast, the macroeconomic literature implies a positive relationship between material consumption and economic growth. That is, materialism may be both good and bad. We develop a model that reconciles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Motivation, Economic Progress
OECD Publishing, 2018
Over the past century, technological development and better access to services has resulted in significant improvements to quality of life. Despite this, however, levels of stress, anxiety and depression are rising. Education can play a role in supporting well-being during and beyond schooling. Schools are increasingly concerned not only with…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Well Being, Quality of Life, Self Esteem
Holsen, Ingrid; Geldhof, John; Larsen, Torill; Aardal, Elisabeth – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
As the field of positive youth development (PYD) emerges internationally, models of PYD designed for use in the US must be extended to diverse contexts. For instance, a robust body of evidence supports Lerner and colleagues' Five Cs Model of PYD in the US, but it remains unclear whether the Five Cs Model can validly capture positive development in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Secondary School Students, Cross Cultural Studies
