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Sandy Belizaire – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Problem: This study aimed to assess the influence of ethnic identity, spirituality, and social support on resilience among Black males (BM) who were born in the United States of America and are recent college graduates. The achievement gap between BM and their counterparts is among education's most infuriating problems. Educators are more likely…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Religious Factors, Social Support Groups, Predictor Variables
Mander, David; Lester, Leanne – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
This exploratory study investigates aspects of sleep quality and some of the potential impacts of sleep complaints for 168 male boarding students from regional and remote communities in Years 7 to 12. An online self-report questionnaire was used to examine the relationship between sleep quality and participants' sense of academic self-perception,…
Descriptors: Sleep, Boarding Schools, Secondary School Students, Males
Taniguchi, Emiko – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective To examine how the components of confirmation (i.e., acceptance and challenge) from mother and father have an indirect effect on college men's body dissatisfaction through self-concept, and if body dissatisfaction, in turn, is related to body change behaviors. Participants: College men (N = 237) aged 18-25 from two large universities…
Descriptors: Human Body, Self Concept, Parent Child Relationship, Structural Equation Models
Brown, Everett-Teejay – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The need for mental health services for Latinx communities is growing due to shifting demographics in the United States and increased immigration from Latin America (Provencio Vasquez et al., 2011; Torres & Vallejo, 2015). Unfortunately, Latinx people in the U.S. face disparities in both access to and quality of mental health treatment (Davis…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Mental Health, Health Services, Males
Trusz, Slawomir – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
The article attempts to answer the question why females prefer humanities/social studies, whereas males opt for technology/science. For this purpose, the study majors selected by 445 females and 431 males were linked by logit functions with: (1) parents' and (2) teachers' expectancies, (3) students' self-expectancies, (4) their self-concepts of…
Descriptors: Females, Humanities, Social Studies, Males
Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
For the first time in 2001 the Census for England and Wales included a question on religious identity. The campaign for the inclusion of this question was largely pioneered by the Muslim community who argued that religious identity was a more significant indicator of social and public significance than ethnicity. This paper tests the thesis that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Muslims
Ellis, James M.; Rowley, Larry Lee; Nellum, Christopher J.; Smith, Chauncey D. – Urban Education, 2018
Black male adolescents face unique barriers in schools that may contribute to racial disparities in educational outcomes. Their social-cognitive strengths, however, influence their confidence to be academically successful despite these barriers. This study explored whether racial academic stereotypes and racial centrality were associated with and…
Descriptors: Alienation, Males, Stereotypes, Race
Wouters, Sofie; Colpin, Hilde; Van Damme, Jan; Verschueren, Karine – Educational Psychology, 2015
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) model predicts students' academic self-concept to be negatively predicted by the achievement level of their reference group, controlling for individual achievement. Despite an abundance of empirical evidence supporting the BFLPE, there have been relatively few studies searching for possible moderators.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Males, Grade 6
Al-Hoorie, Ali H. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This paper investigates the attitudinal/motivational predictors of second language (L2) academic achievement. Young adult learners of English as a foreign language (N = 311) completed several self-report measures and the Single-Target Implicit Association Test. Examination of the motivational profiles of high and low achievers revealed that…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Social Desirability, Predictor Variables
O'Brien, Kathryn Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the current research was to examine racial, male and athletic identities and their individual and collective impact on the academic performance of African American male Division I student-athletes (AAMSAs). Data was collected using the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), the Male Role Norms Scale (MRNS), and the…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Athletes, Self Concept
Orgiles, Mireia; Johnson, Blair T.; Huedo-Medina, Tania B.; Espada, Jose P. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: According to previous studies, when parents divorce it may increase the vulnerability of children to develop personal problems, such as lowering academic performance. This research examines the academic performance of Spanish children with divorced parents and its relation to academic self-concept and social anxiety. Method: The…
Descriptors: Divorce, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Adolescents
Coren, Sidney A.; Luthar, Suniya S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
This study extends past findings of heightened problems among affluent youth by examining adjustment patterns among boys in two academically elite, independent high schools: one for boys only and the other co-educational. Both samples manifested disproportionately high rates of internalizing and externalizing symptoms, but only the co-educational…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Males, High School Students, Private Schools
Ojeda, Lizette; Pina-Watson, Brandy; Castillo, Linda G.; Castillo, Rosalinda; Khan, Noshaba; Leigh, Jennifer – Journal of Career Development, 2012
This study examined the role of culture and personality on the career decision self-efficacy of 338 Latino seventh-grade public middle school students. Specifically, we examined the role of acculturation, enculturation, ethnic identity, and conscientiousness on career decision self-efficacy. Findings indicated Latina girls were more acculturated…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnicity, Females, Self Efficacy
Simpkins, Sandra D.; Price, Chara D.; Garcia, Krystal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Individuals are at an increased risk to drop out of the STEM pipeline if they are female or Latino, and during certain periods including high school. Families are a potential untapped resource of support for high school students. Based on the expectancy-value model, we examined if a variety of parental behaviors predicted students' ability…
Descriptors: STEM Education, At Risk Students, Parent Role, Predictor Variables
Watson, Jarvis M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
African American male college students are graduating at rates lower than their White male college counterparts. This epidemic is a result of the historical implications of institutional racism within American society. Despite these barriers, there are African American males that achieve academically and graduate college. This phenomenological…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, College Students, Racial Differences