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Anna Adamecz; Morag Henderson; Nikki Shure – Education Economics, 2024
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England. We find that…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control
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Bekir, Seyhan; Celik, Eyüp – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine online game addiction level among university students in terms of emotional schemas, agentic personality, and various variables (i.e. gender, type of game played, and accommodation). The sample group consists of 380 university students studying in Izmir province and playing online games during the school year of…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Computer Games, College Students, Personality Traits
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Namli, Sevinc; Demir, Gonul Tekkursun – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine whether mental toughness levels of athletes engaged in the elite-level team and individual sports in Ankara and Erzurum were predictors of moral disengagement in sports. The sample of the study consisted of randomly-selected 515 athletes who were actively engaged in sports in their clubs in 2017. The…
Descriptors: Athletes, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Athletics
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Polat, Hakan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine school administrators' entrepreneurship skills according to teacher opinions. The general screening model was used in the study. 227 teachers working in the province of Elazig constituted the sample of the study. The data were collected through the "Entrepreneurship Scale". According to the study…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrators, Entrepreneurship, School Administration
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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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Atik, Gökhan; Güneri, Oya Yerin – School Psychology International, 2013
This study explored the roles of individual factors (age, gender, locus of control, self-esteem, and loneliness), parenting style, and academic achievement in discriminating students involved in bullying (as bullies, victims, and bully/victims) from those not involved. Participants comprised 742 middle school students (393 females, 349 males). The…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Middle School Students, Parent Role
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Kurland, Robert M.; Siegel, Harold I. – NACADA Journal, 2013
We used 2 studies to examine attachment security and college student success. In the 1st study, 85 first-semester students provided information on attachment dimensions and psychological, ethical, and social indices. More anxious students performed worse academically in college than they had in high school and indicated they would be more willing…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Success, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Liggins, James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The idea that individual behavior is the result of society's influence on individual self-concept beliefs reflects more than a century of theory and research. Therefore, this study focuses on self-concept as a construct of primordial human characteristics such as emotion, aspiration, love, conflict, anger, jealousy, contradiction, guilt, and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Individual Characteristics, Locus of Control, Beliefs
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Rojewski, Jay W.; Lee, In Heok; Gregg, Noel; Gemici, Sinan – Exceptional Children, 2012
This study analyzed the longitudinal development of occupational aspiration prestige scores over a 12-year period (Grade 8 to 8 years postsecondary) to better understand this aspect of career choice from adolescence into adulthood for people with high-incidence disabilities. A curvilinear trajectory was detected where aspirations increased during…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Disabilities, Occupational Aspiration, High School Students
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Bowen, Jayne – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
The aims of the study were to investigate self-esteem levels amongst a sample group of 60 children with Visual Impairment (VI). The group was made up of equal numbers of boys and girls from primary and secondary schools. Each child's self-esteem was measured using the BG STEEM Questionnaire (Maines and Robinson, 1993). The results showed that…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Visual Impairments, Gender Differences, Self Esteem
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Nagengast, Benjamin; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Parada, Roberto H.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Hamilton, Linda R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Existing research posits multiple dimensions of bullying and victimization but has not identified well-differentiated facets of these constructs that meet standards of good measurement: goodness of fit, measurement invariance, lack of differential item functioning, and well-differentiated factors that are not so highly correlated as to detract…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Test Bias, Bullying, Structural Equation Models
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Chen, Han-Ying; Waigandt, Alex C. – Journal of Drug Education, 2009
The prevalence of betel nut chewing among junior high school students is highest in the eastern region of Taiwan (Lin, 1990). Although there is some research on the prevalence rate, little effort has been paid to developing a classification of betel nut chewing behavior applicable to adolescents. Eight-hundred and forty-three students, including…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Incidence, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis
Hyman, Joshua – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Head Start is a federally funded preschool program for poor children designed to help close the gap between those children and their more advantaged peers before they begin public schooling. Given that Head Start appears to have positive long-run impacts on its recipients, a natural and important next question to ask is: What are the channels…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Cognitive Development, Program Effectiveness
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Salami, Samuel O. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the psychosocial factors that predict mentoring among nurses. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted a survey research design. Questionnaires were used to collect data on self-esteem, locus of control, emotional intelligence and demographic factors from 480 nurses (males 230; females = 250)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns, Social Influences, Questionnaires
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Fortin, Nicole M. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
Using two single-cohort longitudinal surveys, the NLS72 and the NELS88, I investigate the impact of four noncognitive traits--self-esteem, external locus of control, the importance of money/work and the importance of people/family--on wages and on the gender wage gap among these young workers. I find that gender differences in these noncognitive…
Descriptors: Wages, Locus of Control, Young Adults, Salary Wage Differentials
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