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Rining Wei; Barry Lee Reynolds; Mengxia Kong; Zhixin Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Psychological variables remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences (IDs) compared with cognitive ones. The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of bilingualism by investigating national identity (NI), a socio-psychological construct, based on big data, that has rarely been…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nationalism, Self Concept, Psychological Patterns
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Jiping Yang; Xueqi Zeng; Shiyin Wang; Xingchao Wang – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Life satisfaction is considered a hallmark of mental health in adolescence. However, the relationship between parental phubbing and life satisfaction and the internal mechanism has rarely been studied. Therefore, our objective was to examine the relationship between parental phubbing and life satisfaction and investigate the mediating effect of…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Handheld Devices
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Christian M. Stewart; Allison Master; Sarah S. Mire; Kristen S. Hassett; Bradley H. Smith – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: This study aims to investigate the impact of positive illusory bias (PIB) on the relationship between ADHD symptoms and functioning in college students, with a focus on gender differences. Method: The sample consisted of 195 college students, including 148 with ADHD and 47 without ADHD. Measures of ADHD symptomatology, life…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Students with Disabilities, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), College Students
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Turk-Kurtca, Tugba; Bakiler, Esra; Yavuz-Birben, Fazilet – Online Submission, 2020
Increasing life satisfaction has become a quite topical subject today with the effect of positive psychology trend. Psychological studies try to determine the factors which are related to life satisfaction. This study aims to examine the effect of self-construal, hopeful thinking and problem solving on life satisfaction. To that end, multiple…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes, Problem Solving, Life Satisfaction
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McIlveen, Peter; Alchin, Carolyn; Hoare, P. Nancey; Bowman, Sarah; Harris, Rebecca; Gotting, Geraldine; Gilmour, John; Perera, Harsha N.; Beccaria, Lisa; Kossen, Chris; Cavaye, Jim; Creed, Allison; McDonald, Nicole – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2022
Emerging public discourse about making a "tree change", "green change", or "sea change" emphasizes the putative benefits of working and residing in regional Australia. Yet, attracting and retaining workers in the regions is a challenge for policymakers, governments, and industries. The present research involved two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Place of Residence, Demography
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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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Gülaçti, Fikret – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of students to the teaching profession in terms of self-esteem, altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, humor style, a five-factor personality types of the students of the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program (PFECP), and to determine the relationships if there is between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Self Esteem, Altruism
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Pennell, Claire; Boman, Peter; Mergler, Amanda – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
This study was an examination of the strength of relations among covitality, and its underlying constructs of belief in self, emotional competence, belief in others, and engaged living, and two outcome variables: subjective well-being and depression. Participants included 361 Australian secondary school students (75 males and 286 females) who…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Well Being, Depression (Psychology), Secondary School Students
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Chang, Edward C.; Yu, Tina; Chang, Olivia D.; Jilani, Zunaira – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objectives: The present study examined perfectionism (viz, evaluative concerns and personal standards) and ethnicity as predictors of body dissatisfaction in female college students. Participants: Participants were 298 female college students sampled by December of 2013. Methods: A self-report survey with measures of body dissatisfaction,…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Predictor Variables, Asian American Students
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Wayment, Heidi A.; West, Taylor N.; Craddock, Emily B. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2016
This study examined the unique contributions of compassion-related values and skills on stress and life satisfaction in two samples of first-year college students. Quiet ego, a measure of a compassionate self-identity, was associated with using relatively more compassionate interpersonal goals relative to self-image goals. Self-compassion and, to…
Descriptors: Values, Self Concept, Student Adjustment, Stress Variables
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Flynn, Deborah M.; MacLeod, Stephanie – College Student Journal, 2015
This study explored the relationship between happiness, and six other life domains: Academic Success, Financial Security, Familial Support, Living Environment, Self-Image and Social Relations. Participants were one hundred and ninety- two students from a small undergraduate university. The purpose of the study was to determine which life domain…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, College Students, Anxiety
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Ojeda, Lizette; Edwards, Lisa M.; Hardin, Erin E.; Piña-Watson, Brandy – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2014
We examined the role of behavioral (acculturation and enculturation) and cognitive cultural orientation (independent and interdependent self-construal) on Mexican American college students' life satisfaction. Analyses explained 28% of the variance in life satisfaction, with social class, grade point average, and independent self-construal being…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Cultural Background, Self Concept, Life Satisfaction
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Schoffstall, Sarah; Cawthon, Stephanie; Dickson, Duncan; Bond, Mark; Ocuto, Oscar; Ge, Jinjin – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2016
Involvement in extracurricular activities provides youth with opportunities to develop important personal skills, abilities, and preferences, and to build meaningful social support networks. Historically, students who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDHH) have had limited access to opportunities for both academic and occupational development,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Student Participation, Postsecondary Education
Drost, Amy Linden – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined predictors of school and life satisfaction of fifth-grade students. Two situational predictor variables (school climate and school stress) and two intrapersonal predictor variables (locus of control and academic self-concept) were examined. It was hypothesized that positive school climate, low levels of school stress, internal…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Life Satisfaction, Satisfaction, Elementary School Students
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Heo, Jinmoo; Lee, Youngkhill – Educational Gerontology, 2010
This study investigated factors that explain the life satisfaction of Senior Games participants. One 193 older adults from the 2005 Michigan State Senior Games and the 2005 New York State Senior Games participated in the study. The results of the study show that one of the indicators of serious leisure (affective attachment) was positively…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Leisure Time, Older Adults, Psychological Patterns
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