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Hassi, Abderrahman – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2016
The present research is designed to identify the appropriate and relevant objectives that need to be pursued through entrepreneurial activities targeting elementary school children. It assesses the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To do so, children aged 11 and 12 attended an entrepreneurial program and completed two versions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Elementary School Curriculum, Program Effectiveness
Schweier, R.; Romppel, M.; Richter, C.; Grande, G. – Health Education Research, 2016
The Internet offers the potential to efficaciously deliver health interventions at a low cost and with a low threshold across any distance. However, since many web-based interventions are confronted with low use and adherence, proactive dissemination strategies are needed. We, therefore, tested the efficacy of a 1-h patient education session as…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Intervention, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Burns, Gary N.; Jasinski, Dale; Dunn, Steve; Fletcher, Duncan – Career Development Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the relationship between evaluations of academic support services and student athletes' career decision-making self-efficacy. One hundred and fifty-eight NCAA athletes (68% male) from 11 Division I teams completed measures of satisfaction with their academic support services, career decision-making self-efficacy, general…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Self Efficacy, Athletes, Locus of Control
Murphy, Gail L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
It is well established in the literature that learners who are self-regulated and function with a high self-efficacy are more internally motivated and produce better performance outcomes. Teacher-regulated approaches undermine students' internal motivation, and lead to poorer performance. Promoting self-efficacy in nursing has been linked to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Nursing Students, Locus of Control, Self Efficacy
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Abbott, Max W. – 1983
While alcoholism is no longer regarded as a unitary disorder, conventional measures of congition and personality have yet to be shown capable of consistently predicting clinical outcomes. To investigate cognitive dysfunction and locus of control as predictors of post treatment outcome in a large sample of alcoholics, 106 alcoholics (74 men, 32…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Cognitive Processes, Group Therapy
Flouri, Eirini – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Few studies have investigated if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to educational attainment via their impact on child's self-esteem and locus of control. Aims: (1) To investigate (after controlling for known confounding factors) the long-term effect of mother's and father's interest in child's…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Daughters, Cognitive Ability, Mothers
Lichtenstein, Brenda; Sherman, A. Robert – 1982
Identification of relevant individual and intervention variables whose interaction affects response to treatment can be used to facilitate favorable outcomes through appropriate client-treatment matching. To provide a preliminary appraisal of this interaction hypothesis by examining the relationship between client and treatment loci of control as…
Descriptors: College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Counseling Techniques, Eating Habits

Lochman, John E.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1988
Twenty-five youths, aged 10-17, with conduct or related disorders were assessed at entry and discharge from a Re-ED residential program. Improvements were found in: academic achievement, evening staff ratings of residents' hostility and anger arousal, and residents' perceptions of mastery over their environment. Day staff ratings did not indicate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Disorders
Stone, Elaine J. – 1976
The effects of the fifth grade unit of the School Health Curriculum Project (SHCP) were investigated in a multicultural setting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the purposes of the study was to design and test portions of an evaluation model that could be expanded and used by other school districts which are involved with SHCP. The second paper…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Curriculum Evaluation, Economic Status, Ethnic Origins