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J. Hannah Lee; Junsang Park; Hyun-Ju Ju; Kyoungmin Cho; Seoyoung Lim – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
This study examined the heterogeneity in temporal shifts of unrealistic optimism (UO) by analyzing students' grade expectation throughout a semester. UO was defined as the gap between students' estimated and current course grades, with a larger gap indicating higher UO. Final course grades were viewed as the outcome of UO. A total of 206…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns
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Laili Rosita; Sumarmi; I. Komang Astina; Sugeng Utaya; Syamsul Bachri – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Students' emotional condition plays a crucial role in forming enjoyable learning in geography. One way to modify students' emotions is through field trips to sites with diverse geographical aspects. This study aims to identify potential wetland field trip locations for geography learning in higher education and assess students'…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Field Trips, Ecology, Water
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Roni Laslo-Roth; Sivan George-Levi; Rafal Iwanski; Malgorzata Walejko; Malka Margalit – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Loneliness has recently been defined as a public health problem, and college students from various cultures are considered a vulnerable group. As college students must cope with new personal, social, and academic challenges, their perceptions regarding their entitlement from their environment, and their gratefulness for the assistance they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychological Patterns, Expectation
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Terry L. Rentner; Saud A. Alsulaiman – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for university administrators and health professionals to keep doors open and students safe. Optimistic bias and the Health Belief Model serve as foundations for understanding students' perceived susceptibility and severity for contracting the virus and their perceived benefits…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, COVID-19
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Faramarz Ebn-Abbasi; Nazila Fattahi; Mohammad Javad Sayyahi; Musa Nushi – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The majority of previous research on the language mindset (LM) and academic engagement (AEG) of learners was dominated by the focus on traditional in-person classrooms, whereas less is known about the influence of the beliefs of learners toward language learning on their AEG, which comprises behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and agentic engagement…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns
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Gonzalo Luna-Cortes – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Prior studies showed that optimism has positive benefits for students in higher education. However, research indicates different types of optimism, including the unrealistic optimism associated with the illusion of control. The literature review showed a lack of research on the effect of the illusion of control among students in higher education.…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, World Views
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Azila-Gbettor, Edem Maxwell; Mensah, Christopher; Abiemo, Martin Kwasi; Agbodza, Mavis – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The study examines a mediated, moderated process of students' intellectual engagement from optimism, academic self-efficacy and academic burnout. Design/methodology/approach: Five hundred and twenty-seven participants who completed a self-reported questionnaire were selected using a convenient sampling technique. PLSc was used to test the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Self Efficacy, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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William T. Heard Jr.; Mary E. Yakimowski – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2024
While much has been studied addressing the topic of academic resilience, few researchers have examined adolescent perceptions of the factors that contribute to school success. This qualitative interpretive study explored individual protective factors that can promote academic resilience in urban middle school students. One-on-one interviews (N=20)…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence
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Todd Mitchell – English Journal, 2025
A teacher and author shares vital ways to help students counter climate despair with hope, agency, imagination, and activism.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Expectation, Climate
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Temel, Veysel; Tekin, Murat – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
A positive perception situation positively increases the person's worthiness, self-confidence and perspective towards time. The current study determined the relationship between the positive perception and social well-being levels of students during the COVID-19 quarantine period. The study group consisted of 236 students, 110 females and 126…
Descriptors: College Students, Well Being, Positive Attitudes, Relationship
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Fei Cao; Mengting Li; Li-fang Zhang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Drawing on the job demands-resources theory, this study pioneered the investigation of the influence of academic psychological capital (including self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism) on PhD students' creativity (including novelty and usefulness). It further explored the mediating role of academic engagement (including vigour, dedication,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Correlation, Creativity
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Stephen R. Earl; Daniel Bishop; Kirsty Miller; Ellie Davison; Lynn Pickerell – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Students' initial experiences at university often shape their attendance and attainment. For some students, university is a positive experience, whereas others seemingly struggle and have more negative emotions. Unearthing distinctions in first-year students' emotionality may be valuable in understanding their academic engagement and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Attendance Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement
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Bo Hyun Lee; Sang Min Lee; J. Hannah Lee – Journal of Career Development, 2025
The present study aims to identify unrealistic career optimism among Korean high school students and to examine its characteristics. Cluster analysis was conducted to identify the number of groups classified by the reported levels of career aspirations and career preparation behaviors among 420 Korean high school students, and each group's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, High School Students, Career Choice
Kim Frost – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student demand for online learning is at an all-time high, making the identification of practical strategies for supporting student success in online learning more vital than ever. Positive emotion has been shown to promote self-regulated learning (SRL) and engagement, both evidenced predictors of student success. However, little is known about…
Descriptors: Play, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
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Andrea Bohman; Maureen A. Eger; Mikael Hjerm; Jeffrey Mitchell – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
In this article, we analyse the level of and development in students' academic stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We devote particular attention to students that first entered university in 2020, 'the COVID cohort', who had fewer opportunities to integrate in ways that theoretically should mitigate the impact of pandemic-induced disruption to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Foreign Countries, College Students, Life Satisfaction
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