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Adem Kantar; Büsra Aslan Cevheroglu; Aysegül Bakir; Serel Akdur Çiçek – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
This study aims to adapt the Academic Entitlement Scale to Turkish culture and examine the scale's measurement invariance according to gender. The study was conducted with 372 university students aged 18 and 54 (I = 20.90). The study used the Academic Entitlement Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Narcissistic Personality Inventory, and Locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Sohr-Preston, Sara; Boswell, Stefanie S. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Academic entitlement (AE) is a common source of frustration for college personnel. This investigation examined predictors (self-concept, academic dishonesty, locus of control, and family functioning) of AE in male and female college students. Academic dishonesty and the interaction between locus of control and family functioning significantly…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Self Concept
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Morales, Erik E. – Roeper Review, 2010
Based on data from qualitative interviews with 50 high-achieving low-socioeconomic students of color, two "clusters" of important and symbiotic protective factors are identified and explored. Each cluster consists of a series of interrelated protective factors identified by the participants as crucial to their statistically exceptional academic…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Personality Traits, At Risk Students, Minority Groups
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You, Sukkyung; Sharkey, Jill – Educational Psychology, 2009
US schools fail to engage a significant proportion of adolescent students. Although student engagement is significantly related to academic achievement, there is a dearth of longitudinal research simultaneously examining the impact of personal and contextual factors on student engagement at both individual and school levels. Using a…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Economic Status, School Safety, Academic Achievement
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Walker, Karen – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
Underpinning the practice of career counsellors is a range of various theories and perspectives. The concept of self-esteem is a term frequently used by those in the helping professions and often with little regard for its limitations. This article argues that careers counsellors need to keep up-to-date with evolving theories that inform their…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Self Esteem
Rothblum, Esther D.; Green, Leon – 1980
Abramson, Seligman and Teasdale's reformulated model of learned helplessness hypothesized that an attribution of causality intervenes between the perception of noncontingency and the future expectation of future noncontingency. To test this model, relationships between attribution and performance under failure, success, and control conditions were…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Expectation
van Laar, Colette; Weiner, Bernard – 1998
Using an attributional framework, the study examined college students' (N=529) expectations of their future economic outcomes and the role they perceived that discrimination would play in determining these outcomes. Expectancies for self, locus of causality for outcomes, self-esteem, locus of causality for failure, locus of causality for success,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Attribution Theory, Black Achievement
van Laar, Colette – 1997
Students' expectancies for their future economic outcomes, differences in expectancies between ethnic groups, and the relationship of these expectancies to attributions and self-esteem are examined in two studies (Study 1, N=746; Study 2, N=2,130). An ANOVA was used. Study 2 is part of the first wave of a longitudinal study. Results indicate that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Attribution Theory, Black Achievement
Haggstrom, Gus W.; Morrison, Peter A. – 1979
The effects of adolescent parenthood upon certain outcome measures reflecting changes in aspirations, attitudes, and well-being were investigated using data from the National Longitudinal Study of High School Class of 1972. Analyses were computed for expected educational attainment; self-esteem; locus of control; orientation toward work, family,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Birth, Comparative Analysis
Ozolins, Mickey S.; And Others – 1980
The inability of some children to cope with the pain from severe burns may result in depressive withdrawal or death. An understanding of the emotional impact of pain on children is essential to improve their ability to cope. A pilot project with seriously burned children employed three dependent measures to identify children who cope adaptively…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Processes, Coping
Stevens, Renee – 1980
A student with a poor school history may differ from his or her classmates not only in academic skills but also in the expectation of future success. Seventh grade students (N=51) identified by teachers as at-risk for school failure because of their previous school performance were compared with an equal number of normal classmates on measures of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Anxiety, Cognitive Measurement
Fagan, Nancy Magnusson; And Others – 1983
Since student ratings of teacher effectiveness are instrumental in faculty promotion and tenure decisions, the assets and limitations of such ratings must be understood. To investigate the impact of three personality factors (ability, locus of control, and self-esteem) and academic performance on expectation and attributions of performance, 212…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, College Students
Long, Samuel – 1976
In this study, individual-oriented and system-oriented models of systemic rejection among white and black adolescents are investigated. Systemic rejection is defined as attitudes of political alienation and political violence justification. Twelve hypotheses were generated and tested using survey data collected in May 1976 from a random sample of…
Descriptors: Activism, Adolescents, Expectation, High School Students
Gama, Elizabeth Maria Pinheiro; de Jesus, Denise Meyrelles – 1991
This research assessed the impact of the experience of academic success and failure on the causal attribution patterns of low income Brazilian elementary school students. The sample consisted of 147 first, third, and fifth graders, previously classified as success or failure students. Causal attribution was measured through individual interviews…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Elementary Education
Haggstrom, Gus W.; And Others – 1984
This study examines how becoming a parent affects the lives of young men and women during the 7-year period following their graduation from high school. The study is based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS), a large panel study of over 22,000 high school seniors who were the subjects of four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Citizen Participation, Comparative Analysis