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Samuel, Rosalia; Kamenetsky, Stuart B. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Many first-year university students experience stressors that impact their adjustment and well-being. Their help-seeking attitudes and preferred sources of support may be associated with various factors. The purpose of the present study was to (1) examine help-seeking preferences amongst first-year university students, (2) explore factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Help Seeking, Mental Health
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Kell, Harrison J.; Robbins, Steven B.; Su, Rong; Brenneman, Meghan – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
The concept of human capital originated in economics over 200 years ago. The current paper takes a novel approach to human capital by interpreting it from a psychological perspective. We divide human capital into 2 domains: traditional and nontraditional. The traditional domain consists of the constructs that have been historically classified as…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Cognitive Ability, Personality Traits, Vocational Interests
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Xu, Jianzhong; Du, Jianxia; Fan, Xitao – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
The present study investigates empirical models of groupwork management in online collaborative learning environments, based on the data from 298 students (86 groups) in United States. Data revealed that, at the group level, groupwork management was positively associated with feedback and help seeking. Data further revealed that, at the individual…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teamwork
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Altermatt, Ellen Rydell; Ivers, Ivy E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study examined social support processes in the context of positive events. The conversations of fourth-grade through sixth-grade focal children and their friends (N = 116) were observed after focal children outperformed their friend on an achievement-related task. Changes in focal children's performance-related positive affect from…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Friendship, Student Adjustment, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Swahn, Monica H.; Potter, Lloyd B. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2002
This study examined factors associated with the medical severity of suicide attempts focusing on demographic characteristics, and circumstances of the suicide attempt. Results show that young age was significantly associated with a nearly lethal suicide attempt. Prior attempts, hopelessness, depression, and help-seeking were significantly and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Depression (Psychology), Help Seeking
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis