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Shisang Peng; Skyler T. Hawk – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Adolescents' information management behaviors involve calibrating interactions between the self and parents, which could serve as either risk or protective factors for self-esteem. Since a sense of control over life outcomes is a protective factor for overall well-being, it might account for links between youth information management…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Late Adolescents, Mothers
Maika Malualelagi Tuala – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study looks at how income differences affect children's social psychological development, which in turn shapes their academic achievement. Building on theories of social class, cultural capital, and self-concept formation, this dissertation offers a new social psychological model that connects parental SES, concerted cultivation, children's…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Individual Development, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
Dong, Zhi-An; Jiang, Man; Liu, Zi-Ming – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
This study aims to explore the relationship between locus of control, grit, self-esteem and mental health among college students. A questionnaire survey was used to conduct a study on the mental health of 923 E-learning college students from 10 universities in Guangxi, China. In this study, Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Students, Self Esteem, Foreign Countries
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
Andrew J. Higgins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Self-esteem, self-efficacy, and locus of control are important variables in understanding and appreciating educators. Teachers' beliefs in their own self-worth, ability to excel in specific areas, and acumen to control their environment are critical constructs in today's classrooms. The purpose of this study was to better understand education…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Self Esteem
Hatteberg, Sarah J. – Teaching Sociology, 2022
Student motivation, confidence, and perceived control are of key interest to sociology instructors seeking to develop pedagogical techniques that increase student engagement. However, attribution research suggests that strengthening these aspects of student learning can be challenging if students attribute academic outcomes to factors over which…
Descriptors: Sociology, Students, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy
Turan Dalli, Hatice; Sezgin, Ferudun – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2022
The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between locus of control, self-confidence, perceived organizational support and organizational silence of teachers working in Anatolian high schools. The research is a study of relational survey model and it aims to determine the explanatory and predictive correlations between the specified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Locus of Control, Self Esteem
Anna Adamecz; Morag Henderson; Nikki Shure – Education Economics, 2024
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England. We find that…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control
Adem Kantar; Büsra Aslan Cevheroglu; Aysegül Bakir; Serel Akdur Çiçek – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
This study aims to adapt the Academic Entitlement Scale to Turkish culture and examine the scale's measurement invariance according to gender. The study was conducted with 372 university students aged 18 and 54 (I = 20.90). The study used the Academic Entitlement Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Narcissistic Personality Inventory, and Locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Test Reliability
Ock, Jisoo; McAbee, Samuel T.; Ercan, Seydahmet; Shaw, Amy; Oswald, Frederick L. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2021
As a multifaceted construct reflecting one's self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional stability, core self-evaluations (CSE) has become popular to measure in applied psychology research, especially given its conceptual importance and empirical usefulness for understanding the dispositional effects on employee…
Descriptors: Generalization, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Measures (Individuals), Self Esteem
Stefania Sette; Matilde Brunetti; Giulia Pecora; Fiorenzo Laghi; Emiddia Longobardi; Robert J. Coplan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study investigated links between motivations for social withdrawal, time spent alone, and indices of internalizing difficulties. Participants were 169 (n = 96 girls) children and early adolescents aged 8-14 years (M[subscript age] = 10.82, SD = 1.78). Children completed self-report measures of motivations for social withdrawal (shyness,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Social Isolation
Nyberg, Amanda; Ferm, Ulrika; Bornman, Juan – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
Child abuse can have serious long-term physical, psychological, behavioural, societal and economic consequences. The aim of this scoping review was to map the literature on abuse prevention programs conducted at schools for pre-teenage children. The review outlines the specific components and methods of the programs, the measurements used and the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Prevention, Victims, Students with Disabilities
Helmbrecht, Brittany; Ayars, Candace – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
A multiple regression analysis was performed to determine if self-esteem, social support, locus of control, or coping strategies could predict perceived stress in first-generation college students. All variables studied were found to predict stress, while self-esteem and emotional-support seeking coping added statistical significance to the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Young Adults, Predictor Variables, Stress Variables
Bekir, Seyhan; Celik, Eyüp – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine online game addiction level among university students in terms of emotional schemas, agentic personality, and various variables (i.e. gender, type of game played, and accommodation). The sample group consists of 380 university students studying in Izmir province and playing online games during the school year of…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Computer Games, College Students, Personality Traits
Robertson, Jane; Terblanche, Nicky; Le Sueur, Heidi – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
Insights into the learning environment are required especially when applying action learning commonly used in management development programmes (MDPs). The study reports on an emerging action learning conceptual framework that fosters an environment for individual transformative learning in an MDP. The purpose of this research was to make clear…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Problem Solving, Management Development, Transformative Learning