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Malin, Heather – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Purpose is an indicator of healthy human development and believed by some theorists and educators to be an important outcome of college. The aim of this study was to test the potential for assessing purpose using a person-centered analysis, thereby providing more individual-specific understanding of students' purpose development, and second by…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Experience, Student Experience, Goal Orientation
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Joana Pipa; João R. Daniel; Francisco Peixoto – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Grade retention is one of the most discussed and controversial educational measures, and yet, it is still widely applied in many countries. Research investigating the effects of grade retention on students' psychosocial variables presents mixed findings, partly due to the variables assessed, methodological issues, and the length of the studies.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Grade Repetition, Self Esteem, Self Concept
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Ji Hong; Dionne Cross Francis; Paul A. Schutz – Educational Psychologist, 2024
In this article, we focus on developing a clearer conceptualization of teacher identity. We provide an inclusive definition that integrates three key dimensions of the construct that have been previously underexamined: (1) Teacher identity as part of ongoing, goal-focused, agentic regulating processes, (2) Teacher identity as part of multiple…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Holistic Approach, Professional Autonomy, Goal Orientation
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Baumsteiger, Rachel; Riches, Brian; Mangan, Susan A.; McConchie, James; Bronk, Kendall Cotton – Journal of Character Education, 2022
Youth purpose has important implications for behavior and well-being, yet there is limited information about the types of purpose that young people pursue. The current study contributes insight into the content of purpose through a survey of 316 adolescents and young adults. Analyses of responses revealed that young people rated their purposes as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Goal Orientation, Self Concept
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Jelena Davidova; Irena Kokina; Baiba Kokina – European Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Due to the fact that it is vitally important for the people of Latvia to preserve and develop their national identity in today's globalized world, it is especially important to maintain a high level of art education quality and promote the well-being of art teachers more holistically. In the era of growing globalization and multiculturalism,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Teachers, Well Being, Sustainable Development
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Alós Cívico, Francisco J.; Acedo, Virginia I.; Maldonado Herves, Miguel Ángel; Moreno Osella, Eliana María – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The presence of students with disabilities in universities has increased in recent years; however, studies about the psychological well-being of this group are still scarce. The objective of this research was to ascertain and analyze the degree of psychological well-being in university students with disabilities and compare them to a…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Students with Disabilities, College Students
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Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Mariya; Sharma, Gitima; Stephens, Jason M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Academic misconduct has been conceptualized as students' engagement in various types of proscribed behaviors, such as plagiarism and cheating on assignments and tests or exams (e.g., Stephens et al., 2021). While most of the current literature on academic misconduct has focused on developed countries, the problem is rampant across the world (Krou…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cheating, Mexicans, Foreign Countries
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Chandra Handa, Manoj – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2023
Our aspirations for gifted learners in talent development programs need to go beyond the development of expertise, creative productivity, and eminence. It is argued that wisdom development should be the ultimate goal of educating gifted learners. It is not merely what talents gifted learners develop, but how they use these talents, which will…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Yazedjian, Ani; Lannin, Daniel G.; Parris, Leandra – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2020
Relationship education (RE) has been linked to several short- and long-term benefits; however, less is known about its effects on adolescents' overarching life-goals. This study utilized a multi-method approach to examine whether RE was linked to increases in the relative importance of intrinsic, as opposed to extrinsic, life-goals. Results…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adolescents, Goal Orientation, Well Being
Park, Hyewon – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There has been a rapid increase in the number of North Korean defectors (NKDs) entering South Korea, and the remarkable trend of NKDs is their demographic transition; the defectors in their 20s and 30s now constitute a majority among NKDs in South Korea. In this sense, this study aims to explore North Korean young adult defectors' (referred to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Young Adults, Self Concept
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Miçoogullari, Bülent Okan; Ekmekçi, Ridvan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological skills training (PST) in enhancing mental toughness among Turkish professional soccer team. Sixteen weeks of cognitive-behavioral conceptual framework-based PST program designed according to factors (confidence-constancy-control) of Sport Mental Toughness Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Athletes, Team Sports
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Chen, Su-Yen; Lu, Luo – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
This study explores how motivational factors are associated with Taiwanese college students' cognitive, personal, and social development by incorporating both relatively global, static self-attributes, such as social-oriented achievement motivation and individual-oriented achievement motivation, which are considered to be culturally balanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, College Students, Social Development
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Allen, James G.; Wasicsko, M. Mark; Chirichello, Michael – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2014
In this article the authors contend that the element that is typically missing or underdeveloped in the education and development of most leaders is the intentional integration of the research and practices for assessing and developing the deeply held core beliefs, attitudes, and values (what we will call leadership dispositions) that play a…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Hofer, Manfred – Educational Psychologist, 2010
The unfolding of individual interests is reconstructed as part of a person's everyday experience in dealing with multiple goals. This is exemplified by referring to how adolescents cope with developmental tasks while striving for their ideal selves. Exploratory interaction with objects of potential interest is regarded as a central element that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, Interests, Goal Orientation
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Steen, Sam; Henfield, Malik S.; Booker, Beverly – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2014
This article presents the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model, which is designed to help school counselors integrate students' academic and personal-social development into their group work. We first describe this group model in detail and then offer one case example of a middle school counselor using the ASE model to conduct a…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, School Counseling, School Counselors, Models
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