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Cahyadi, Ani; Hendryadi, Hendryadi; Mappadang, Agoestina – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2021
This study aims to examine the relationship between workplace and classroom incivility to learning engagement and the moderating role of internal locus of control in these relationships. An online questionnaire was administered to 432 students from three private universities in Jakarta, Indonesia. The regression analysis results showed that both…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Classroom Environment, Antisocial Behavior, Locus of Control
Tony Xing Tan; Joy Huanhuan Wang; Yi Zhou – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Aims: To determine the associations between COVID-19 school closures and school readiness skills for Chinese kindergarteners. Design: We utilized the natural experimental condition created by local COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 (Study 1) to compare school readiness skills of children whose kindergartens were closed for 5 months (Group 1) with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Readiness, School Closing
Eutychus Ngotho Gichuru; George Leonard Kahangwa – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a statistically significant mean difference in various entrepreneurial tendencies (including the need for achievement, need for autonomy, creative tendency, calculated risk-taking, and internal locus of control) between student-teachers who have received university entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teacher Attitudes
Sari, Winda Liftiana; Fakhruddiana, Fuadah – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
The basis of this study was to determine the relationship between internal locus of control and social support with students' academic procrastination in completing their thesis. This study is using correlational sampling technique and the research samples taken from quota sampling technique are 80 college students who are in the process of…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Time Management, College Students, Theses
Karaman, Mehmet A.; Lerma, Eunice; Vela, Javier Cavazos; Watson, Joshua C. – Journal of College Counseling, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine factors predictive of college students' academic stress. Three hundred seven undergraduate students (179 men, 128 women) participated in the study. Results indicated that female college students had higher academic stress than did male college students. Bivariate correlations and multiple regression…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Stress Variables, Gender Differences
Kim, Misol; Reid, Alan; Rickinson, Mark – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Locus of Control (LOC) is a general term used in social and educational psychology to refer to the perceived source of control for behavioural outcomes. Since the 1980s, various instruments have been developed to measure this construct in relation to pro-environmental behaviours and action. In this article, we revisit the value of this construct…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Psychometrics, Conservation (Environment), Measures (Individuals)
Hailikari, Telle; Nieminen, Juha; Asikainen, Henna – Educational Psychology, 2022
The present study combines two separate research traditions that have been found to explain the way students deal with their university study and other challenges: psychological flexibility and cognitive-attributional strategies. The aim of this study is to explore the interrelationships between students' psychological flexibility,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Adjustment (to Environment)
David Marks – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community college libraries provide retention support for students navigating through their coursework. This research consists of interviews with 10 out of 18 library directors in New Jersey. This study takes a sizable positive step in determining how an academic library supports retention since a library director is uniquely qualified and able to…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Administrators, Community Colleges, Academic Libraries
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
Yasin, Naveed; Khansari, Zeinab – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise education (social innovation and enterprise) learning programme on the enterprising characteristics among interdisciplinary undergraduate enterprise education students from a general (without considering gender) and gender-specific perspective at a higher education institution in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Entrepreneurship
Balaž, Barbara; Hanzec Markovic, Ivana; Brajša-Žganec, Andreja – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Objective: The main purpose of this study was to examine the assumptions of the control-value theory of achievement emotions in the explanation of the relationship between positive achievement emotions and academic success. Method: The study was conducted among 513 high school students (341 female) from two high schools in Zagreb, Croatia.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
Misti D. Gossett-Thrower – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study aimed to understand the lived experience of marginalized young men who transformed from low academic achievement to academic success in obtaining post-secondary education. Boys have a long history of underperformance in secondary and post-secondary institutions, especially when they face additional barriers such as first…
Descriptors: Males, Low Achievement, Achievement Gains, Success
Rodon, Carole; Chin, Jessie; Chevalier, Aline – Health Education Research, 2022
Health literacy (HL) is critical to find, understand and use health information for adopting appropriate health behavior, especially during a pandemic crisis in which people can be exposed to an overwhelming amount of information from different media. To this end, we conducted an online study to first validate the measure of COronaVIrus Disease…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Knowledge Level, Health, Foreign Countries
Kepoglu, Abdurrahman – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
The study aims to determine the degree to which sports managers show behaviors related to management processes and to what extent the focus of control of sports managers affects these behaviors, to increase the performance of sports managers. The universe of the research consists of 1st , 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-year students studying at the Department…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Athletics, Administrators, Leadership Qualities
Korfiatis, Konstantinos; Petrou, Stella – Environmental Education Research, 2021
There is a strong belief among environmental and sustainability educators and researchers that meaningful education can benefit from participatory approaches. Participation in decision-making, community cooperation, and interaction, development of team communication, solidarity and real action resulting in real outcomes, are the qualities that…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Childrens Attitudes, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy