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Download full textEkpoto, David Francis; Odey, Clarence Odey; Akpa, John Ipuole – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
This study examined the influence of student-related variables like peer influence, parental income and self-esteem on the academic outcome of Social Science Education Students in the Department of Social Science Education in University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study; while the purposive sampling…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Social Sciences
Direct linkVitaro, Frank; Beaver, Kevin M.; Brendgen, Mara; Dickson, Daniel J.; Dionne, Ginette; Boivin, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The goal of the present study was to replicate Burt et al. (2009) and Hou et al. (2013) findings by determining the contribution of peers' deviance to changes in participants' (monozygotic [MZ] twins') self-reported delinquency from mid- to late adolescence while controlling for possible gene-environment correlations (rGE) through the use of the…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Twins, Delinquency, Adolescents
Görzig, Anke; Blaya, Catherine; Bedrosova, Marie; Audrin, Catherine; Machackova, Hana – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
There is some indication that discrimination as well as low levels of life satisfaction render young people at risk of cyberhate victimization. Adopting a socio-ecological perspective, this paper examines whether supportive family, peer and school environments may buffer against the effects of perceived discrimination and low life satisfaction on…
Descriptors: Victims, Computer Mediated Communication, Life Satisfaction, Bullying
Cavagnetto, Andy R.; Premo, Joshua; Coleman, Zachary; Juergens, Kate – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Small-group discussion is a central component of 21st-century biology classrooms. Many factors shape these discussions and thus influence potential learning gains. This study examined how accuracy and idea consideration shaped small-group discussions in undergraduate biology labs (12 groups, M = 42.8 talk turns). To do this, we asked: (1) Is there…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Accuracy, Undergraduate Students
Kalkbrenner, Michael T.; Miceli, Gabriella – Professional Counselor, 2022
Meeting the mental health needs of students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors is particularly challenging for professional counselors who work in college settings, as STEM students are a subgroup of college students that face unique risks for developing mental health issues. The scarcity of literature on…
Descriptors: Barriers, Help Seeking, Counseling, STEM Education
Ordaz, Arnold Sánchez; Mosqueda, Eduardo – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
This study examines the effect of race/ethnicity, immigrant status and the role of school belonging on the academic achievement of Mexican, Filipino, and white students. We focus on school belonging and peer influences in concert with immigrant generational status and family income to predict students' academic achievement at the end of 9th grade.…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Karabatak, Songül; Alanoglu, Müslim – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
This study investigated whether teacher candidates' perceived social support (PSS) predicts smartphone use during lectures. To achieve the aim of the study, a relational survey model was used. The study sample composed of students studying at the College of Education in Elazig Province, Turkey, during the 2019-2020 academic semester. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Predictor Variables, Telecommunications
Ulfah, Maria; Gustina, Erni – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This study aimed to investigate whether communication patterns, peers' involvement and gender different can be the predictors of adolescent bullying behavior. This study involved 193 adolescents of grade 8 and 9 with the most adolescents of 14 years old who had filled in questionnaires. The results showed the prevalence of adolescent involvement…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Bullying, Interpersonal Communication
McNally, Rachel D. S.; Winterowd, Carrie L.; Farra, Aisha – College Student Journal, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to explore significant predictors of current and past grief among bereaved college students, including time since the death loss (number of months), level of emotional closeness college students felt toward their deceased loved ones, their psychological sense of community to college, and their perceived social…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups
Bilige, Sude; Gan, Yongtao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
A number of studies on rural students have addressed the issue of discernible school dropout; however, information on hidden dropout is relatively obscure. To fill this gap, this study examines the data of 2045 rural adolescents (regular students: 1770, hidden dropouts: 275) in Chinese middle schools. This study also theoretically differentiated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Adolescents, Middle School Students
Abbott, Jessica; Lamphere, Reneé; McGrath, Shelly A. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2019
In this paper, we examined the extent to which one's own religiosity, as well as that of her or his peers, has on alcohol and substance use among undergraduate students at a medium-sized public university in the south-eastern United States. Findings indicate that though peer religiosity significantly affects substance use, one's own religiosity is…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Peer Influence, Drug Abuse
Beswick, Kim; Watt, Helen M. G.; Granziera, Helena; Geiger, Vince; Fraser, Sharon – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This study examined the extent to which boys fell into clusters comprised of different levels of motivations and costs. In turn, the antecedents of these clusters and associations with engagement and wellbeing outcomes were considered. Based on survey responses from 168 students across Years 5, 7 and 9 from an all-boys' school in Sydney,…
Descriptors: Males, Student Motivation, Grade 5, Grade 7
Hendy, Nhung T.; Montargot, Nathalie; Papadimitriou, Antigoni – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021
In this study, we examined the role of social learning theory in explaining academic dishonesty among 673 college students in the United States, France, and Greece. We found support for social learning theory such that perceived peer dishonesty was incrementally valid as a predictor of self-reported academic dishonesty across three countries…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Learning Theories, Ethics, Cheating
Šalamounová, Zuzana; Fucík, Petr – Educational Studies, 2021
To intensify students learning, it is important to understand why individual students participate in classroom discourse differently. So far, there is no empirical evidence illustrating how student participation is affected by the fact that students achieve certain peer status among their classmates. Therefore, this study examines the relationship…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Peer Relationship, Social Status, Student Participation
