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Predicting and Explaining Students' Stress with the Demand-Control Model: Does Neuroticism Also Matter?
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Schmidt, Laura I.; Sieverding, Monika; Scheiter, Fabian; Obergfell, Julia – Educational Psychology, 2015
University students often report high stress levels, and studies even suggest a recent increase. However, there is a lack of theoretically based research on the structural conditions that influence students' perceived stress. The current study compared the effects of Karasek's demand-control dimensions with the influence of neuroticism to address…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Neurosis, Models, College Students
Predicting High School Student Use of Learning Strategies: The Role of Preferred Learning Styles and Classroom Climate
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Cheema, Jehanzeb; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study investigated the predictiveness of preferred learning styles (competitive and cooperative) and classroom climate (teacher support and disciplinary climate) on learning strategy use in mathematics. The student survey part of the Programme for International Student Assessment 2003 comprising of 4633 US observations was used in a weighted…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Strategies, Prediction, Preferences
Learning Strategies and Their Relationships to Academic Performance of High School Students in Hong Kong
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Yip, Michael C. W. – Educational Psychology, 2013
The present study examines the dynamic relationship between academic performance of high school students and their respective learning and study strategies. Two hundred thirty-six high school students were recruited to participate in this study by completing a Chinese version of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory--LASSI, to probe into the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Study Habits
Arts Involvement Predicts Academic Achievement Only When the Child Has a Musical Instrument
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Young, Laura N.; Cordes, Sara; Winner, Ellen – Educational Psychology, 2014
We examined the associations between academic achievement and arts involvement (access to a musical instrument for the child at home, participation in unspecified after-school arts activities) in a sample of 2339 11-12-year-olds surveyed in the USA between 1998 and 2008. We compared the contributions of these variables to other kinds of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prediction, Musical Instruments, Socioeconomic Status
Interaction between Task Values and Self-Efficacy on Maladaptive Achievement Strategy Use
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Lee, Jeesoo; Bong, Mimi; Kim, Sung-il – Educational Psychology, 2014
We tested the interaction between task value and self-efficacy on defensive pessimism, academic cheating, procrastination and self-handicapping among 574 Korean 11th graders in the context of English as a foreign language. We hypothesised that perceiving high value in tasks or domains for which self-efficacy was low would pose a threat to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Task Analysis
Teacher Stress and Pupil Behaviour Explored through a Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy Framework
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Robertson, Caroline; Dunsmuir, Sandra – Educational Psychology, 2013
Using the psychological framework of rational-emotive behaviour therapy, the principal aim of this study was to establish whether irrational beliefs, self-efficacy or pupil behaviour predicted teacher reports of stress. A secondary aim was to establish whether these variables, in addition to teachers' verbal feedback to pupils in class, predicted…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Therapy, Behavior Modification