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Po-Chi Kao – SAGE Open, 2024
To best understand foreign language learning, the present study proposes and tests a conceptual model of confidence in speaking English by examining the path effects of three variables. These three variables are parental psychological control, self-esteem, and language class risk taking. Data were collected from 394 Taiwanese undergraduate…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Self Esteem, Risk, English (Second Language)
Leung, Chi-hung; To, Hing-kwan – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: In Hong Kong, secondary school students face high levels of stress due to the examination oriented curricula. According to Sun (2006), some secondary school students cannot bear the pressure when facing the examinations, and some of them may exhibit destructive behaviors such as suicide and bullying. Therefore, cases of school bullying…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Stress Variables, Bullying, Females
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Noack, Peter – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1998
Explores effects of parents' and friends' behavior in verbal interactions with adolescents' concerning their school achievement. Finds that parental behavior aimed at control in family interactions had a negative effect on adolescents' school achievement, whereas the same type of behavior shown by best friends resulted in an improvement of school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries